Great Philosophical Quotes

• I could never figure out or probably did not take the trouble to figure out what the great philosophical problems are about. The momentous statements I come across are at best a storm in a teacup. There are quite a number of people who have a vested interest in the stuff, make a noble living out of it, and they conspire with one another to keep it alive.

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  Eric Hoffer

  Philosophical   Numbers   People  

  1697

• Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.

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  Roger Ebert

  Philosophical   Delight   Care  

  Roger Ebert (2008). “The Great Movies II”, p.278, Crown Archetype

  552

• Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity.

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  Kedar Joshi

  Selfish   Philosophical   Vanity  

  1179

• There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers

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  Plato

  Kings   Philosophical   Humanity  

  4533

• It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe lends itself to mathematical treatment is not a fact of any great philosophical significance.

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  Bertrand Russell

  Kindness   Philosophical   Math  

  4817

• You can only be you when you do your best. When you don't do your best you are denying yourself the right to be you. That's a seed that you should really nurture in your mind. You don't need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don't need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.

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  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational   Philosophical   Acceptance  

  2319