Philosophy Quotes

"I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws."

- Tiger Woods

"Philosophy is the highest music."

- Plato

"Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking."

- Nina Simone

"Flowers didn't ask to be flowers, and I didn't ask to be me."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn't have to write at all anymore if I didn't want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don't know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they're through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn't ask to be flowers and I didn't ask to be me."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"The gray area, the place between black and white — that's the place where life happens."

- Justin Timberlake

"We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life."

- Jenova Chen

"Even geniuses can get things wrong. Look at Einstein's unfortunate choice of a hairdresser."

- Joss Stirling

"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"You're only as good as your last haircut."

- Fran Lebowitz

"What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out."

- Alfred Hitchcock

"You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance, it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life."

- Susan Vreeland

"The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become."

- Scotty Bowman

"Life may not be about your bike, but it sure can help you get through it."

- Hallman

"Life is like a ten speed bicycle, most of us have gears we have not used."

- Charles M. Schulz

"Bicycles may change, but cycling is timeless."

- Zapata Espinoza

"The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine."

- Jenny Hart

"My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat."

- Satchel Paige

"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."

- Jorge Luis Borges

"By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth."

- Yukio Mishima

"I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit"

- John F. Kennedy

"The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is very close to the center of a nation's purpose...and is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization"

- John F. Kennedy

"If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal"

- John F. Kennedy

"Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction –in short, between and old today and a new tomorrow."

- Henrich Rohrer

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing."

- Daniel J. Boorstin

"Traveling is like flirting with life. It's saying 'I would stay and love you but I have to go, this is my station."

- Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

"No puede acabar lo que es eterno, ni puede tener fin la inmensidad."

- Rosalia de Castro

"Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life."

- Karl Lagerfeld

"Mankind must make heaven before we can 'go to heaven' (as the phrase is), in this world as in any other."

- Florence Nightingale

"Life is like a confused teacher... first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson."

- Drake