Philosophy Quotes

"I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology."

"What I really love about philosophers and psychologists is that they sound smart."

"My philosophy is to be me."

"To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness."

"My philosophy is always to play for a win."

"My philosophy is always to play forward because goal is the reason of football."

"I'm a card-carrying existentialist."

"Time is the moving image of eternity."

"Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river."

Jorge Luis Borges

"Time is the measure of movement."

"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."

Saint Augustine

"'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer."

Francis Bacon

"Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man."

"Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth."

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"There is no truth. There is only perception."

Gustave Flaubert

"He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false."

Baruch Spinoza

"Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events."

William James

"Of truth we know nothing, for truth is in a well."

Democritus

"Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real."

Iris Murdoch

"Courage is a kind of salvation."

"War is the father of all things."

Heraclitus

"Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished."

Immanuel Kant

"Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires."

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."