Top 1200 Most Philosophical Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

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

We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known to us was probably a nickname bestowed by his followers. According to one source, it meant ‘He who spoke truth like an oracle’. Rather than entrust his mathematical and philosophical ideas to paper, Pythagoras is said to have expounded them before large crowds. The world’s most famous mathematician was also its first rhetorician.

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

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

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

You have to abide by the regulations that the regulators insist on. This is not a philosophical divide - it's a fact of life.

I'd be somewhat disinclined to be responsible for the fortunes of a franchise that uses a sitcom as their philosophical north star.

War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken

Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

Usually on jobs I'm quite philosophical and think 'The right girl gets the part and everything is meant to be.'

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche.

A lot of the foundational philosophical approaches of tech leaders are actually all about decentralization of power.

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

You can't be too concerned with the philosophical meanings of the character and how it will affect everything else.

I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.

Well, I don't like to get involved in these philosophical issues very much.

Technology at present is covert philosophy; the point is to make it overtly philosophical.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?

The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

No woman has been a significant original thinker in any of the world's great philosophical traditions.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.

Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday; whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment.

Trump shows no philosophical or moral compass and is so divisive that his negative ratings are sky high.

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.

Any political or philosophical agenda can and will be perverted by power and/or fear.

Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

What was Ted Kennedy? Was he not the ultimate insider in Washington, yet maintaining philosophical views, when necessary?

Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

I'm not trying to be philosophical, but I really think it's my job to help children. And I don't care if people laugh.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.

I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

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

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.