Philosophical Quotes

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
~Walter Pater

You cannot step into the same river twice.
~Heraclitus

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
~Johann G. Hamann

The obstacle is the path.
~Zen Proverb

Maybe I’m being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.
~Persis Khambatta

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
~Roger Miller

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

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
~Russian Proverb

I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.
~Greta Scacchi

If you’re going to tickle, use a feather not a whip.
~Audrey Foris

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
~Hedy Lamarr

The map is not the territory.
~Alfred Korzybski

A philosophical problem has the form: I don’t know my way about.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
~John Lancaster Spalding

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
~Mohandas Gandhi

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
~John Burroughs

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
~Aristotle

You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
~Navajo Proverb