Philosophy Quotes and Quotations
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
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Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.
Karl Marx
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There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.
Stephen Hawking
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Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Stephen Hawking
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan
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As government expands, liberty contracts.
Ronald Reagan
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Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?
Marilyn Monroe
