Philisophy Quotes & Sayings

Its not the respect we hold when we are alive but after death!!
-Mahesh Shekhar — Mahesh Shekhar

When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match.
- Sleepless in Seattle — Nora Ephron

Begin to trust thyself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is transitory... and love is poetry in action — Scarlet Risque

A government that spoke of military glory as an aim would betray ignorance of, or contempt for, the spirit of nations and the age. It would be an error by a thousand years. Even if it should initially succeed, it would be interesting to see who in the end would win this odd wager, our own century or the offending government. — Benjamin Constant

Oh, as the tragedies of Shakespeare have revealed, the fall of kings is but fodder for the riches entertainments. — Robert Alexander

Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down. — Charles Simeon

Therefore, the very large department store should not be viewed as a sinful undertaking, as, for example, the Tower of Babel. It is, rather, proof of the inability of the human race of today to be extravagant. It even builds skyscrapers: and the consequence this time isn't a great flood, but just a shop ... — Joseph Roth

Lust arrives as an angel disguised as love, but it's still lust, not love. — Scarlet Risque

its better to know some question than all answers -James Thurber — R.J. Palacio

The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn. — Taylor Lautner

The journey to the realisation of your dreams is difficult; you will have to climb the mountains of despair, brave the storms of self doubt, be resolute in the winds of ridicule but the in the very end you will get a kind of self satisfaction that no one can take away from you — Rassool Jibraeerl Snyman

You'd think that philisophy might have put the kibosh on some of the Freddy Krueger stuff," I mused, tilting my jaw until I felt the pull of the scar.
"And well it might, if you ever let on that it hurt."
I'm inclined to agree with that, too, but there's a limit. "So I should start going strapless."
"DOn't be snotty. — Melissa Jensen

One person may look and only see a tree, whereas others may look and see a tree with leaves. — Adrian Sandvaer

Life has a cruel way of making us confront the things we dread. — Pragat Kasana

Moral philosophers say things like, 'What is actually wrong with cannibalism?' There are two ways of responding to that: one is to shrink back in horror and say, 'Cannibalism! Cannibalism! We can't talk about cannibalism!' The other is to say, 'Well, actually, what is wrong with cannibalism?' Then you work it out and you tease it out and you decide yes, actually, cannibalism is wrong, but for the following reasons. So I'd like to think that my moral values at least partly come from reasoning. Trying to suppress the gut reaction as much as possible. ["Is Richard Dawkins destroying his reputation?", The Guardian, 9 June 2015] — Richard Dawkins

One Nice Guy asked me, If a man is talking in the forest and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong? — Robert Glover

You are the most lucky person in the world, only if you BELIEVE so. — Nitesh Aggarwaal

Death just shouldn't be a taxable event. — Dennis Hastert

Evil has a way of propagating like a plague. Where plague is a disease of the body, evil is a disease of the soul. It spreads through our actions: an act of evil done to someone infests their soul, so that they desire to do evil in return. And evil grows with each turn, the revenge act must be the greater. The best way to deal with evil is to turn it into something good, before it has the chance to spread. Each of us has the ability to have evil stop with us.
Anonymous. The Treatise of Wisdom (Kindle Locations 4492-4494). Unknown. — Anonymous

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him. — Blaise Pascal

Living in the middle of beauty like this, we've no call to have puny ideas about God. Why do you suppose His world is so fancy-fine, so full of wonderment if He doesn't want everything to be good and perfect and right and healthy? But we can spoil His good work. When we mess things up, then we shouldn't blame Him and try to make ourselves feel better by contending that it's what He wanted. — Catherine Marshall

You can spend your life judging people or, you can spend it making friends. Take your pick. — Carroll Bryant

A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths. — Will Durant