Philosophy Quotes

The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.

- Miyamoto Musashi

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

- Adolf Hitler

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

- Socrates

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

- Joni Mitchell

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

- Lev S. Vygotsky

Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That's all you need in life. Its just my personal philosophy.

- G-Eazy

That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.

- Haile Selassie

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

- Winston Churchill

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

- George Carlin

But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey published by his wife.

- Kwame Nkrumah

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

- Michel Foucault

My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.

- Peter Tosh

The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle

- Robert Sobukwe

The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.

- Lev S. Vygotsky

Everything is Energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you can not help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.

- Unknown

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

- Thomas Hobbes

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

- Aristotle

My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice, however bad we can make them, I make them.

- Bill Belichick

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

- Socrates

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

- Elie Wiesel

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

- Sri Aurobindo

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

- Victor Hugo

It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best.

- K. Pattabhi Jois

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

- Muhammad Iqbal

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

- David Hume

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

- Democritus

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

- Anthony Hopkins

If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless.

- Andrew the Apostle

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter.

- Nel Noddings

The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.

- Bruce H. Lipton

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... Everything is war. Me say war. That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation... Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significa...nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!

- Bob Marley

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

- Douglas Adams

Jiu-Jitsu is like a philosophy. It helps me learn how to face life.

- Helio Gracie

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

- Confucius

An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.

- Al-Farabi

We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense, there is no need for temple or church, for mosque or synagogue, no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine, or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are: ultimately these are all we need.

- Dalai Lama

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

- Robin Williams

Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace, Lord I know just how they feel.

- Hank Williams, Jr.

The Sea Will be the Sea Whatever the drop's philosophy.

- Farid al-Din Attar

Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith. Item by item he has to reason out every nook and corner of the prevailing faith. If after considerable reasoning one is led to believe in any theory or philosophy, his faith is welcomed. His reasoning can be mistaken, wrong, misled and sometimes fallacious. But he is liable to correction because reason is the guiding star of his life. But mere faith and blind faith is dangerous: it dulls the brain, and makes a man reactionary.

- Bhagat Singh

Cut throats, gun smoke, dope, and hoes, is what controls niggas souls.

- Snoop Dogg

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

- Karl Marx

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

- Louis Pasteur

If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.

- Amish Tripathi

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed this philosophy, he does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas.

- Jacob Lawrence