Philosophy Quotes

"Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I’ve played the game for 40 years and I still haven’t the slightest idea how to play."

- Gary Player

"Schooling prepares children for jobs, yet getting a job is not what life is about. Life exists in the space between all we deem important."

- Vince Gowmon

"Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life…"

- Robert Henri

"If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul."

- Paul Cezanne

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."

- John W. Gardner

"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril."

- Oscar Wilde

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."

- Thomas Wolfe

"What is art but a way of seeing?"

- Saul Bellow

"All art is but imitation of nature."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance."

- Nostradamus

"Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel."

- Voltaire

"In heaven an angel is nobody in particular."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking."

- Carl Sagan

"Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential."

- Robert Henri

"God and other artists are always a little obscure."

- Oscar Wilde

"Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry, or money."

- Ernst Levy

"Music is the best means we have of digesting time."

- W. H. Auden

"I always said God was against art and I still believe it."

- Edward Elgar

"If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art."

- Arnold Schoenberg

"As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note."

- George Bizet

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."

- Woody Allen

"You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search."

- Rick Riordan

"Humans become angels on earth, not in heaven."

- Paramahansa Yogananda

"For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels."

- Thomas Hobbes

"But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on."

- Francis Bacon

"Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust."

- Kenneth Rexroth

"There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"It seems to me that the good life is not any fixed state. [...] The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination."

- Rogers

"A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves."

- Yalom