Philosophy Quotes

It is my great hope that, as we struggle for racial justice, we will follow that philosophy and method of non-violent resistance, realizing that this is the approach that can bring about that better day of racial justice for everyone.

No two cities have counted more with mankind than Athens and Jerusalem. Their messages in religion, philosophy, and art have been the main guiding lights of modern faith and culture.

The moral philosophy and spiritual conceptions of men and nations should hold their own amid these formidable scientific evolutions...No material progress, even though it takes shapes we cannot now conceive, or however it may expand the faculties of man, can bring comfort to his soul.

There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.

The power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.