Quotes about Philosophy
It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.
— Marty Rubin
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
— Confucius
We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.
— Thomas Jefferson
The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.
— Aldous Huxley
A man's life is what his thoughts make it.
— Marcus Aurelius
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
— Marcus Aurelius
Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.
— Harold S. Kushner
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
— William Golding
I believe in the theoretical benevolence, and the practical malignity of man.
— William Hazlitt
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
— William James
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits
— William James
Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.
— William James