Philosophy Sayings & Quotes
These philosophy sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. - Sir Francis Bacon
If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. - Ludwig Van Beethoven
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above. - Denis Diderot
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs. - Mikhail Gorbachev
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - Ulysses Simpson Grant
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. - William Butler Yeats
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. - Henry David Thoreau
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils. - Cicero
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. - Sir Winston Churchill
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is. - Victor Cousin
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross
Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art, It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C. S. Lewis