Philosophical quotes

If you kill a man like me, you will injure yourselves more than you will injure me.

Socrates

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Aristotle

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

James Baldwin

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

Karl Marx

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Abraham Maslow

Evil events from evil causes spring.

Aristophanes

Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.

Barbara W. Tuchman

All forms of self expression are linked.

Alexandra Stoddard

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Albert Pike

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Oscar Wilde

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Oscar Wilde

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Federico Fellini

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

Alfred North Whitehead

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Federico Fellini

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

Jean Baudrillard

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Jean Baudrillard

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, Seek simplicity and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

Victor Kiam

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Pearl Bailey

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Booker T. Washington

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Allan Massie

The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of reason.

Immanuel Kant

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

Jean Paul Sartre

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way.

Havelock Ellis

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

Octavio Paz