Philosophical Quotes - Page 10

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.

Veganism isn’t just a strict vegetarian diet; it is a complete philosophical viewpoint. It is practical in outlook, simple to understand and aspires to the highest environmental and spiritual values. I am sure it holds the key to a future lifestyle for a humane planetary guardianship.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time. The gap widened between the beauty, the seriousness of the work, and what it has become is beyond me. This level of marketing reduces to nothing the aesthetic and philosophical significance of this work.

Take the time to smell the roses. Sooner or later, you'll inhale a bee and die.

Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.

This philosophical postulate that the end of all being is the happiness of man has been sort-of covered over with evangelical terms and biblical doctrine - until God reigns in heaven for the happiness of man, Jesus Christ was incarnate for the happiness of man, all the angels exist and ... everything is for the happiness of man - and I submit to you that this is unchristian.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

We turn from the light to see.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.