Philosophy Quotes

"My nationalism is not exclusive, it is inclusive."

"A person is but the product of their thoughts; what they think is what they become."

"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place."

"What is the use of philosophy if it does not answer the questions posed to us by our fellow human beings?"

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!"

"I pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and effect to the firm ground of first principles."

"What we think, we become"

"Be curious, not judgmental"

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."

"We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles."

"The real problem is that through our scientific genius we've made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we've failed to make of it a brotherhood."

"We must remember always that the supreme test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of men we are producing."

"There are few things wholly evil or wholly good."

"Memory shapes us more than we realize; we are the stories we remember."

"Philosophy is asking the questions that make comfortable people uncomfortable."

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes."

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."

"Human beings are creatures of habit more than of reason."

"The human story does not always unfold like an arithmetical calculation on the principle that two and two make four."

"Fatalism is the refuge of those who have given up thinking."

"All religions are equal in the sense that they teach virtues like love, compassion, and justice."

"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole."

"We believe that social bonds are indissoluble, that all men are brothers."

"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be."

"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which the fortunate feel for the unfortunate."

"Means and ends must cohere because the end is pre-existent in the means."

"The intellectual's privilege is also the intellectual's burden."

"To be truly alive is to be perpetually uncomfortable with compromise."

"To be an intellectual is to accept permanent dissatisfaction."