Alan Watts Quotes, Baby Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the substance is a stream of energy going in at one end and out at the other. We are particularly and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar, and pate de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement - and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Baby Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Medicine Quotes

The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Ignorance Quotes

Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Able Quotes

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Education Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Dream Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Fall Quotes

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Educational Quotes

He does not seek glory - yet people respect him.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Laozi Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , People Quotes

Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Thinking Quotes

The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Business Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Art Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Life Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Men Quotes

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Fear Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Art Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Believe Quotes

The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Fighting Quotes

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Philosophy Quotes