Post Your Favourite Philosophical Quotes Here

These are quaint, but true . . . you'll see, you'll think of them again . . . (after you've done it--ha!)

• Never answer a question no one asked you.
• Never hand someone the hammer with which to knock you over the head.

FreedomFromAll said:

My high is always reflective, peaceable, intellectually exciting, and sociable, unlike most alcohol highs, and there is never a hangover. Carl Sagan

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game show host + astrophysics

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Gertrude Jekyll


A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
George Savile


Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


These quotes strike true. Patience is a very important characteristic that needs to be built up with practice.

"Give a man a fish, you feed him dinner for one night. Teach a man how to fish, you feed him dinner for a lifetime."

Chinese Proverb

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." Stephen roberts

"God does not play dice" - Einstein
"Albert, stop telling God what to do." - Niels Bohr

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
-Cicero

“Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.”

—Phaedrus

Mach said:

Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” - Machiavelli

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Favorite quote right there

"Do or do not. There is no try." - Master Yoda

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery" ~ Winston Churchill

“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain” ~ Winston Churchill

"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich" ~ William F. Buckley Jr.

"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said" ~ William F. Buckley Jr.

"Humans are irrelevant to the universe." -- Paralogic

"You miss 100% of the shots you do not take" - Wayne Gretzky.

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

"Empiricists do it a posteriori."

"Is it Solipsistic in here, or is it just me?"

"Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash." -- Harriet Rubin

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"I will do whatever I have to do in order to be able to do whatever I want to do." -- unknown, I picked it up from a D&D book

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." --Eleanor Roosevelt

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-Douglas Adams

"Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system."

Cicero

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Samuel Johnson

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
-Winston Churchill

“The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.”
– Whitney Young

"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
-Carlin

“The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.”
- Gloria Steinem

“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
Yale University Commencement June 11, 1962" - John F. Kennedy

"If we believe absurdities we will commit atrocities." - Voltaire

"Don't let schooling interfere with your education." - Mark Twain

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”
-Seneca

"Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it." - Swedish Proverb

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
Thomas A. Edison

"I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me." - Mark Twain, The Damned Human Race

"He who passively accepts evil... is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Nietzsche

"One must be a sea to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure." - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
― Marcus Aurelius

It is better to light one candle than to curse all the darkness in the world......Buddha

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
--Alfred North Whitehead.

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone..... Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Ignorance: the root of all evil.”....Plato

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."--Anne Lamott

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. -- Ashleigh Brilliant

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to you previous self. - Samuel Johnson

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
--Tom Robbins

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.....Woody Allen

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly....Woody Allen

You can't change the past. Let it go, or else those demons will be the only future you'll know. -Cobra Commander (G.I. Joe Comic #2)

"Stand up for what you believe in and go with your heart and go with your gut. That's what I did, and look at me now. I'm just as happy as can be!" - Whitney Kropp