Philosopher Quotes - Page 3

If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That's what contemporary philosophers do.

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.

The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.

Light poured out multiplies light poured in.

For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.

Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of progress of developing communities.

Divine is supernatural.

Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance

i closed my eyes and i loved you ... dreams are such beautiful things

Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.

The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.

Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen.

A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears.

Ambition soars and also slithers

The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.

To quote a famous philosopher revered in my time 'But this is no different from regular life. When have you ever known what's going to happen in the future?'" Wait a minute, Jonah thought. I said that. Back at Westminster, with Katherine. Does that mean I'm going to be a famous philosopher in the future? Does that mean I'm going to be revered? There wasn't time to ask.

Leave me to die a lonely death. An artist’s death. A writer’s playground. A painter’s background. A philosopher’s bread and butter.An endeavor that we all face. I just hope that I’m not the only one there.

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.

A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.

Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.

To lovers there.Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn't last is they made themselves to become a want than a need in a relationship.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion.

Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.

Your greatest adventure is written inside of you

Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.

I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets

I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision.

Liberty is my religion and Humans are my God.

I travel to the ancient world by reading ancient books.

My ship came in,then it sank!

Thinking outside of the box is unnecessary when there are no boxes in your imagination.

It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

Three things have a limited threshold:Time, pain, and death.While truth, love, and knowledge –Are boundless.

He who has no dreams has no hope and thus lives in a hell of his own making - rjs

The condition and characteristic of an uninstructed person is this: he never expects from himself profit (advantage) nor harm, but from externals. The condition and characteristic of a philosopher is this: he expects all advantage and all harm from himself.

Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.

Scholars love knowledge.Philosophers love wisdom.The most knowledgeable become professors.The most wise become sages.

If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.

Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.

The Lord gives the bread of adversity and the water of affliction for spiritual rebirth.

Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them

Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.

A thought is of a much higher value than an action.

Philosophers think, creators make!

The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you.

They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

When the melody plays, footsteps move, heart sings and spirit begin to dance.

You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.

Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do.

You are the best book you could ever write phi

Yet I loathe the thought of annihilating myself quite as much now as I ever did. I think with sadness of all the books I’ve read, all the places I’ve seen, all the knowledge I’ve amassed and that will be no more. All the music, all the paintings, all the culture, so many places: and suddenly nothing. ... If it had at least enriched the earth; if it had given birth to… what? A hill? A rocket? But no. Nothing will have taken place. I can still see the hedge of hazel trees flurried by the wind and the promises with which I fed my beating heart while I stood gazing at the gold-mine at my feet: a whole life to live. The promises have all been kept. And yet, turning an incredulous gaze towards that young and credulous girl, I realise with stupor how much I was gypped.

In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.

Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance