I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. —Charles Schulz More about this quote Tags: pessimism philosophy dread Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. Songs like "Let Me Rest on a Peaceful Mountain" or "I Saw the Light" — that's my religion. I don't adhere to rabbis, preachers, evangelists, all of that. . . . The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs. —Bob Dylan More about this quote Tags: truth religion philosophy music belief songs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice. —Leo Tolstoy More about this quote Tags: philosophy writing effort practice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. —Frank Lloyd Wright More about this quote Tags: philosophy art wealth luxury Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts lead us back to God. —Francis Bacon More about this quote Tags: God philosophy atheism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
By all means marry: if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. —Socrates More about this quote Tags: humor philosophy marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: philosophy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: philosophy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. —Cicero More about this quote Tags: philosophy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now. —Diane Ackerman More about this quote Tags: philosophy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: philosophy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. —Ludwig Wittgenstein More about this quote Tags: philosophy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. —Rene Descartes More about this quote Tags: philosophy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. —Samuel Butler More about this quote Tags: philosophy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Leisure is the mother of philosophy. —Thomas Hobbes More about this quote Tags: philosophy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email