Quotes on Philosophical

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Belief creates the actual fact.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.

I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish." - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago

The wisdom to quit is all we have left.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

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

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?