philosophy quotes

“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”

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

— Winston Churchill

“Life is not fair get used to it.”

“Philosophy is the highest music.”

“There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”

“Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”

“Philosophy begins in wonder.”

“I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. ”

“There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.”

“I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. ”

— Stephen Hawking

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

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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
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— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.”

— Victor Hugo

“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself. ”

“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. ”

“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”

— William James

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

— Clive Staples Lewis

“Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.”

— Henry Miller

“Philosophy is common sense with big words.”

— James Madison

“To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.”

— Mitt Romney

“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.”

— Ronald Reagan

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