Quotes about philosophy

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Albert Schweitzer

Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Frank Lloyd Wright

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I like to play cards. I’m not very good, because I don’t want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I’ve learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.

Jack Ma

I’m a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

Bruce Lee

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won’t give up practicing philosophy.

Plato

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Will Durant

Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.

Ayn Rand

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we’ll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we’re all one but continue to try to win.

Neale Donald Walsch