Philosophical Quotes - Page 16

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.

The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There's more of a chance then that they'll survive.

Life is a constant process of dying.

The law is reason, free from passion.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The demand for certainty will inevitably be disappointed, leaving skepticism in command of almost every issue.

While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.