Philosophy Quotes

Someone told me something that stuck with me 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

When you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

The universe really is motion & nothing else.

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth.

All thinking begins with wondering.

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.

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

My philosophy is that everything starts with a great product.

There are three people in yourself:Who people think you are, Who you think you are, and who you really are.

All's well if all ends well.