Quotes on Philosophical

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.