I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.
Pete Seeger
A gun gives you the body, not the bird.
Henry David Thoreau
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
Lewis Carrol
A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. ~
Lee Segall
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
There’s more to the truth than just the facts.
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?
Asa Gray
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.
Polish Proverb
I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.
Jack Abramoff
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone’s moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.
Stanley Fish
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Börne
The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.
Immanuel Kant
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?
Stanislaw J. Lec
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Edward R. Murrow
Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.
Phillip E. Johnson
A country’s strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook.
Marc Forne Molne
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
Henry David Thoreau
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
Baba Ram Dass
I am a part of all that I have met.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
A philosophical problem has the form: I don’t know my way about.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That’s the difference between mere theater and performance art.
Jack Bowman
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Aristotle
And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense.
Lawrence Halprin
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
Daniel Barenboim
And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi – that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
Auberon Herbert
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.
Arthur Peacocke
I believe that my art gets across the point that I’m in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I’m speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.
Jeff Koons
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
Daniel Bell
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.
Charles C. Finn
Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
Epictetus
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who’s seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they’re being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.
Robert Nozick
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.
Stanley Arnold
Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one’s patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.
Joshua Slocum
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
Charles Mingus
I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.
Pete Seeger
I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.
Greta Scacchi
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
Hedy Lamarr
I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that’s not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.
Ewan McGregor
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver
Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
Edward Albee
When the student is ready, the master appears.
Buddhist Proverb
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
Bertrand Russell
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau
You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.
Antonio Porchia
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.
Zen Saying
The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?
Chuang Tzu
Before enlightenment – chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment – chop wood, carry water.
Zen Buddhist Proverb
By daily dying I have come to be.
Theodore Roethke
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
Publilius Syrus
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.
John L. McClenahan
Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!
Thomas Carlyle
Philosophy is life’s dry-nurse, who can take care of us – but not suckle us.
Soren Kierkegaard
One man’s quiet is another man’s din.
Carrie Latet
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Louis Bergson
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
Heraclitus
If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
Ram Dass
The fly that doesn’t want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
G.C. Lichtenberg
What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite.
Thomas Carlyle
Don’t miss the donut by looking through the hole.
You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
Navajo Proverb
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
John Burroughs
How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body?
Laurel Hoodwrit