philosophy quotes

• I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [music/wisdom/philosophy]
• Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [music/philosophy]
• Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. ( Socrates) [people/right/philosophy/death]
• We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs. (Mikhail Gorbachev) [philosophy]
• It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. (Sophia Loren) [advantage/system/philosophy]
• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. (John Adams) [politics/war/philosophy]
• Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. (Francis Bacon) [philosophy]
• Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. (Francis Bacon) [men/poets/philosophy/logic]
• Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. (Francis Bacon) [philosophy/god]
• The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. (Henry Ward Beecher) [philosophy]
• A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. (Albert Camus) [philosophy]
• Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. (Albert Camus) [philosophy]
• A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [philosophy]
• A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [philosophy/philosophy/more/religion]
• Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. (Marcus Cicero) [philosophy/love/wisdom]
• Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion. (Charles Caleb Colton) [philosophy/danger/moment/religion]
• There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. (Charles Caleb Colton) [life/philosophy/religion]
• And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it. (John Donne) [philosophy/sun/look]
• But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. (George Eliot) [human/experience/philosophy]
• When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men. (Frantz Fanon) [philosophy/color/philosophy/men]
• I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one. (Ludwig Feuerbach) [truth/system/philosophy/reality]
• Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? (Paul Gauguin) [art/philosophy/philosophy/art]
• America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage. (Martha Graham) [america/philosophy/land/stage]
• Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. (Georg Hegel) [truth/philosophy/reality]
• I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds. (William James) [philosophy/thing]
• Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. (William James) [philosophy/human]
• There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. (James Joyce) [philosophy/church/human/being]
• We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [philosophy/feelings/state/find]
• If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [philosophy/philosophy/right/mind]
• If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [angel/philosophy/sound]
• The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race. (Giuseppe Mazzini) [philosophy/life/human]

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