Philosophical Quotes

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Religion, Remember

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle

History, Poetry, Universal

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Albert Camus

Problem, Serious, Truly

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
Frank Zappa

Change, Minds, Favorite

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
H. L. Mencken

Humor, Men, Lived

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage, Laughter, Wife

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
Bertrand Russell

Problem, Else, Sense

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life, Politics, Business

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.
Ann Coulter

Age, Idiot, Either

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.
Richard Dawkins

Pretty, Interest, Side

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

Words, Become, Tolerance

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

Work, Good, Serious

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
E. O. Wilson

Wrong, Both, Close

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

Friendship, Place, Difficult

I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet.
Alanis Morissette

Person, Meet, Gonna

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

Peace, War, Woman

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
David Hume

Christian, Believing, Sound

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.
Ewan McGregor

Love, Children, Woman

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.
Brian Eno

Idea, Brothers, Drag

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Poetry, Third, Poetic

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

General, Series, Tradition

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Time, Everything, Play

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.
Robert Fripp

Music, Another, Point

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.
Tim Allen

Mean, Place, Fair

I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.
Greta Scacchi

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

Down, Mood, Summer

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

Political, Subject, Motherhood

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Spiritual, Political, Side

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
Daniel Barenboim

Political, Disease, Historical

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