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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. Gautama Buddha philosophy 257
Our whole philosophy is one of transparency. Valerie Jarrett Philosophy 202
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. Epictetus Philosophy 192
In the end, everything is a gag. Charlie Chaplin Philosophy 169
Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex. Karl Marx Philosophy 164
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it. James Lovelock Philosophy 154
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. Gautama Buddha Philosophy 145
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer Philosophy 145
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. Ambrose Bierce Philosophy 134
Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid. George Santayana Philosophy 130
Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be the device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes the method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men. John Dewey Philosophy 128
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. Denis Diderot Philosophy 113
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. Albert Camus Philosophy 112
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it! Joseph Roux Philosophy 112
There was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently. William Shakespeare Philosophy 111
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. Jonathan Swift Philosophy 110
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! Iris Murdoch Philosophy 109
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” Jules de Gaultier Philosophy 108
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors. Jim Rohn Philosophy 108
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. Eric Hoffer Philosophy 105
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. George Berkeley Philosophy 104
When we are tired we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. Friedrich Nietzsche Philosophy 104
The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination. Dan Millman Philosophy 102
If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. Samuel Johnson Philosophy 99
I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. Woody Allen Philosophy 99
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. G. K. Chesterton Philosophy 98
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting. Simone Weil Philosophy 97
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy. Voltaire (Fran Philosophy 97
Philosophy is nothing but discretion. John Selden Philosophy 95
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way. Rollo May Philosophy 95
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. William James Philosophy 94
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it. John Donne Philosophy 94
Lets think the unthinkable lets do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself and see if we may not eff it after all. Douglas Adams Philosophy 93
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. Kahlil Gibran Philosophy 93
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Carl Sagan Philosophy 93
The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics. Richard Rorty Philosophy 91
Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. Lao Tzu Philosophy 91
The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses. Maxim Gorky Philosophy 89
Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test? ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay. Charles M. Schulz Philosophy 89
Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher. Source Unknown Philosophy 88
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. Gaston Bachelard Philosophy 87
For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently. William Shakespeare Philosophy 87
Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another. Gautama Buddha Philosophy 86
If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. Mark Twain Philosophy 85
Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion. Charles Caleb Colton Philosophy 83
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important aims of philosophy. Voltaire Philosophy 83
Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say Friedrich Nietzsche Philosophy 83
How charming is divine philosophy!Not harsh and crabb John Milton Philosophy 82
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy Kahlil Gibran Philosophy 82
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. LouisFerdinand Celine Philosophy 81

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