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Philosophy quotes? Better English might be "philosophical quotes," but the search traffic seems to be going to the former, and we do want searchers to find this page, so here are some philosophy quotes for you to ponder.
All men by nature desire knowledge. - Aristotle
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it. - Ayn Rand
Life is change... Growth is optional... Choose wisely... - Karen Kaiser Clark
If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future - look into your present actions. - Buddhist Saying
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. - Helen Keller
Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it. - Archibald MacLeish
Ideas without action are worthless. - Harvey Mackay
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be either good or evil. - Hannah Arendt
What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? - Jesus
Worry less about defining right and wrong, and more about applying what you already know. - Steve
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. - Malcom X
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. - Samuel Johnson
Politics is more difficult than physics. - Albert Einstein
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form. Ayn Rand
The eye, with which I see God, sees me; my eye and God's eye is one eye, one seeing one realizing and one love - Meister Eckhard
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few. - Shunryu Suzuki
In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things. - Pablo Casals
God respects me when I work, but he loves
me when I sing. - Rabidranath Tagore
In the world to come they will not ask me, 'why were you not
Moses?' They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya. - Zusya of
Hanipoli
If the only prayer you say in your whole life is 'thank you,' that would suffice. - Meister Eckhart
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. – Winston Churchill
It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. - Helen Keller
The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection; the water has no mind to receive their image. - Zenrin poem
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. - Max DePree