Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Taylor

Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.

James Marsters

One of the best things about humans is we recognize patterns, so we get things like science, music, philosophy. One of the worst things is that we see patterns that are not there so we get things like racism, homophobia and Jerry Falwell.

James Marsters

My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever

Novalis

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

Novalis

Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. ... The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.

Novalis

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

Novalis

The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth , air , and [[water.

Novalis

When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating idea—which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy—to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation—the thrust toward ourselves.

Novalis

Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God , Freedom , Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy ?

Novalis

Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.

Novalis

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

Novalis

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

Novalis

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

Norton Juster

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

Emile M. Cioran

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Emile M. Cioran

It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.

Emile M. Cioran

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

Emile M. Cioran

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

Emile M. Cioran

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia’s feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

Emile M. Cioran

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

Emile M. Cioran

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

Ellen Glasgow

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.

Epictetus

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

Epictetus

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

Epictetus

The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

Epictetus

What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

Epicurus

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

Epicurus

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Epicurus

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

Epicurus

Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one's soul's healthy.

Epicurus

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.

Epicurus

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.