Philosophical Quotes - Page 40

We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.

Dancers are the athletes of God.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

To think what you want to think is to think truth, regardless of appearances.

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

Time passes irrevocably.

Trust one who has tried.

All things deteriorate in time.

The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.

One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one to hear?' Which says something about the nature of philosophers , because there is always someone in a forest. It may only be a badger, wondering what that cracking noise was, or a squirrel a bit puzzled by all the scenery going upwards, but someone.

I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all.

I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.