Philosophy
Quotes - Let's Think the Unthinkable
“Let's
think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with
the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
―
Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“Happiness
can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on
the light.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“Those
who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
―
Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching
“We
are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our
thinking.”
―
Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
“The
price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil
men.”
―
Plato
“You
only live twice:
Once
when you are born
And
once when you look death in the face”
―
Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice
“For
me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than
I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far
that gets you.”
―
Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Science
is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of
spirituality.”
―
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Heard
melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
―
John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems
“A
paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
―
William S. Burroughs
“An
intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind
watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher
and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical
question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really
means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
―
Albert Camus
“It
is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude
to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Tiger
got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man
got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger
got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man
got to tell himself he understand.”
―
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“Grown-ups
never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be
always and forever explaining things to them”
―
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Do
not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what
amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy
the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
―
Plato
“Music
is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
―
Ludwig van Beethoven
“If
you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to
explain!”
―
Adolf Hitler
“A
concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can
be thrown through the window.”
―
Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“I
don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become
what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
―
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
“The
easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to
suspect that my own is also.”
―
Mark Twain
