My life's philosophy is that I will meet the person I could have been at the end of my life, and my goal is to reduce the difference between him and me to as little as possible.Tobi Lütke
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurditiesBertrand Russell
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.Ludwig Wittgenstein
We shall not prevent the gradual advance of totalitarian control if we do not succeed in defeating the philosophy which produces it.Friedrich August von Hayek
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.Niels Bohr
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.William Osler
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.Bertrand Russell
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.Edgar Allan Poe
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.Immanuel Kant
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.Benjamin Franklin
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.John W. Gardner
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.Aristotle
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.Plato
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.William Butler Yeats
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.Oscar Wilde
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.Dalai Lama
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.Aristotle
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.Galileo Galilei
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.Abraham Lincoln
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.Aristotle
There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.Dennis Prager