Philosophy Quotes

"The racing is the reward. Not the stuff."

- Lightning McQueen

"A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack."

- Yoda

"I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth."

- R. Buckminster Fuller

"The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve Nature is probably the biggest expression of human pride, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal."

- René Dubos

"Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge."

- Thomas Edison

"The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof."

- Elizabeth I of England

"In nature’s economy the currency is not money, it is life."

- Vandana Shiva

"There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy"

- Shakespeare

"Wars not make one great."

- Yoda

"This is how liberty dies … with thunderous applause."

- Padmé Amidala

"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization."

- Alvar Aalto

"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail."

- Malcolm Bradbury

"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future."

- Albert Camus

"Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture."

- Vivienne Westwood

"Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust."

- Alan Moore

"The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died."

- Plato

"A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death."

- Octavio Paz

"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?"

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"They say that your wedding day goes by in such a flash that you’re lucky if you even get a piece of your own cake. I say that’s crazy. I say let them eat cake. Margaret Thatcher said that about marriage. Smart broad."

- Michael Scott

"My philosophy is, basically this. And this is something that I live by. And I always have. And I always will. Don’t, ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who you are with, or, or where you are going, or, or where you’ve been. Ever. For any reason. Whatsoever."

- Michael Scott

"There’s no such thing as an appropriate joke. That’s why it’s called a joke."

- Michael Scott

"We’re all homos. Homo… Sapiens."

- Michael Scott

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.."

- Nikola Tesla

"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean."

- David Searls

"இந்த உலகில் எதுவும் நிரந்தரம் இல்லாதபொழுது உன் கஷ்டங்கள் மட்டும் எப்படி நிரந்தரமாகும்."

"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."

- Unknown

"The past is a lantern by which we may illuminate the present."

- Unknown