Famous quotes by Philosophers

"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing"

Alan Watts, Philosopher

"Saints need sinners"

Alan Watts, Philosopher

"Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it"

Alan Watts, Philosopher

"Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know"

Alan Watts, Philosopher

"When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"Transcendence constitutes selfhood"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"To dwell is to garden"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"The possible ranks higher than the actual"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"Language is the house of the truth of Being"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal, nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"Men often act knowingly against their interest"

David Hume, Philosopher

"Everything in the world is purchased by labor"

David Hume, Philosopher

"Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding"

David Hume, Philosopher

"Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt more properly than perceived"

David Hume, Philosopher

"The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application"

David Hume, Philosopher

"It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom"

David Hume, Philosopher

"Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other"

David Hume, Philosopher

"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue"

David Hume, Philosopher

"Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence"

David Hume, Philosopher

"Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions"

David Hume, Philosopher

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