Quotes on Philosophical

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

We live in the best of all possible worlds

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: 'What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious awareness and material substance?' The answer is: We don't know, and some people are so terrified to say, 'I don't know.'

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.