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It's not always wise to assume that just because the surface of the world appears undisturbed, life is where you left it. — Jan Ellison

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning. — Jules Verne

Do not be concerned with how others treat you. Be only concerned with how you treat others. — Julia Heywood

My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour. — Auberon Waugh

Silence does not always imply consent. Sometimes it simply means that the silent one has opted out of a discussion with idiots. — Lex Allen

Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche. — Ernst Hanfstaengl

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong. — Saul Kripke

Love is the unification of two equal opposites to create new love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey — Amunhotep El Bey

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. — Confucius

Yet if all reality is subjective, all certitude is impossible. — Robin Paul Wood

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm a fool.
At least i'm a self aware fool. — Colleen Hoover

Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt. — Jack Henry Abbott

Sometimes you can miss the boat and find a new life. — Benny Bellamacina

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality. — Robert M. Pirsig

Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask. — Stephanie Mbida

There's an ancient philosophical joke that's much subtler than it seems. Question: Why is the Universe here? Answer: Where else would it be? — Arthur C. Clarke

If to live is to die, then to die is to live on. — Palle Oswald

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible. — Abigail Padgett

Aures habent et non audient' - 'They have ears but hear not — Jules Verne

There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153 — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems. — Thomas Carlyle

A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way — Benny Bellamacina

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. — C.S. Lewis

The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures — Democritus

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. — Ayn Rand

We might feel we have achieved a lot. just take a pause and look back. We will see only darkness ... — Mahesh Shekhar

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence. — Jean Toomer

Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance. — Orson Scott Card

Must this with farce and folly rack my
head unpunish'd ? that with sing-song,
Whine me dead? — Juvenal

naturalism, alone among all considered philosophical attempts to describe the shape of reality, is radically insufficient in its explanatory range. — David Bentley Hart

We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also. — Albert Schweitzer

Always take a compliment, even if it's not yours — Benny Bellamacina

The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord," Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back. — George R R Martin

Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition? — Twyla Tharp

It's our founding knowledge that diverts us from the truth — Kloby

God is like a search engine - He is willing to answer your requests, but you must ask Him the right questions. — R.M. ArceJaeger

People are divided into two parts: some of them look for and cannot find anything, others find but are not satisfied. — Mihai Eminescu

True war isn't philosophical."
"All war is philosophical. That's why we call it war. Strip it of its paint and it's nothing more than murder. — Roshani Chokshi

Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway. — Richard Finney

Philosophical dogma doesn't interest me. — Bob Dylan

In truth, Liesel was a prisoner too, just held by different kinds of bonds. — Nicki Elson

Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience. — Eric Mann

You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation ... — Paulo Coelho

Why would God create people with all these desires and curiosities and then punish them for trying to satisfy them? — Belle Blackburn

Some women barter their bodies like whores with wedding bands. Some use sex like a sword. But some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus. — Paula Wall

subway stations...
passengers who token through life — Richard L. Ratliff

Your life is a series of moments in "now." The better you make your "now" the better your life. — Karen Salmansohn

No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it. — Carroll Bryant

The Antichrist, Section 7 — Friedrich Nietzsche

Most people need a philosophical enema and I'm the bag with the pipe. — Marla Buchanan

The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions. — Henry David Thoreau

We live in a world where those things that we never imagine could ever do something, did the best. — Jestoni Revealed

I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet. — Alanis Morissette

Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free. — Daniel Delgado F.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

How perfectly evil spirit and beauty can combine in one person, harmonically supplementing each other. — Igor Eliseev

.....we find ourselves inhabitants of the last few living cells of a dying god — Billy Kazee

He who coordinates his thoughts with his actions controls his own destiny." ~ Amunhotep El Bey — Amunhotep El Bey

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
But found in the soul within. — E.A. Bucchianeri

It saddens me beyond my tears that love is lost within the fears. — Lynn C. Tolson

Who depends on another man's table often dines late. — John Ray

The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching) — Robert Baohm

[V]alue your dreams but ... be wary of them also, ... look for integrity in unusual places. — Azar Nafisi

Sometimes we choose the road we follow.
And sometimes the road chooses us. — Richie Singh

Only you are yours. — Susan Trott

Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind. — Fakeer Ishavardas

I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.' — Zig Ziglar

I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels. — William Shakespeare

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. — Freda Adler

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know. — Plato

A little tranquil lake is more significant to my life than any big city in the world — Munia Khan

Darling stop being philosophical it doesn't suit you, it makes your nose red. — Leonora Carrington

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense. — Russell Hoban

Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade. — K. Hari Kumar

Frustration is having a debate with a blind man on shades of red — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

The bad news is, our past defines us. However, the good news is, our future will someday be a part of that past. — Palle Oswald

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth? — Vikram Seth

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. — Daniel Barenboim

At times it is so enjoyable to mire your neighbor into the filth you already got stuck in long ago! — Igor Eliseev

Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same — Paul Simon

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them — Paulo Coelho

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth — Blaise Pascal

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life. — Dale Carnegie

You can't see the world from somebody else's point of view and not be changed. — Lena Coakley

For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The best way to move forward is to stop — Benny Bellamacina

The ultimate philosophical truth is this: Without Christ, all is vanity even when it's easy; with Him, all is well even when it's hard. — Robert J. Morgan

Philosophical involvement blinded me to authentic human fact. — Philip K. Dick

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome. — David Mitchell

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all. — Socrates

Make thought a whirlwind. — Victor Hugo

It is hard to take the last step, but the hardest thing is to make a choice between the unwillingness to live and the inability to die. — Igor Eliseev

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible. — Socrates

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute. — Rebecca Goldstein