philosophy quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."
362
"To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them."
920
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
991
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide."
1047
"It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards."
1062
"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."
36
"Fundamentalism is the philosophy of the powerless, the conquered, the displaced and the dispossessed. Its spawning ground is the wreckage of political and military defeat, as Hebrew fundamentalism arose during the Babylonian captivity, as white Christian fundamentalism appeared in the American South during Reconstruction, as the notion of the Master Race evolved in Germany following World War I."
322
"The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy."
710
"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it."
1053