Philosophical Quotes - Page 8

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Those who would be employed in propagating the Gospel should be familiar with the doctrines he is to combat and the doctrines he is to teach, and acquire a complete knowledge both of the Sacred Scriptures and of these philosophical and mythological dogmas which form the souls of the Buddhist and Hindu Systems.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person. From Aristotle to Heidegger, they try to consider their own lives as something marginal or accidental. What was essential was their teaching and their thinking. Biography is something empirical and outside, and is considered an accident that isn't necessarily or essentially linked to the philosophical activity or system.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

The map is not the territory.

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.

People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

In my downtime, for fun, I engage in philosophical internet debates. Yeah, I'm that guy.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

My love is unconditional. Your action is irrelevant.

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.