Quotes of Philosophical - somelinesforyou

“ The map is not the territory. ”

- Alfred Korzybski

“ Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. ”

- Zen Saying

“ Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. ”

- Edward Albee

“ The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. ”

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“ The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ”

- Stanislaw J. Lec

“ The obstacle is the path. ”

- Zen Saying

“ Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. ”

- Antonio Porchia

“ It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. ”

- John L. Mcclenahan

“ If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. ”

- Ram Dass

“ Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ”

- Aesop

“ I am a part of all that I have met. ”

- Alfred Tennyson

“ I am a part of all that I have touched and that has touched me. ”

- Thomas Wolfe

“ Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. ”

- Henri Bergson

“ Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid. ”

- George Santayana

“ You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. ”

- Robert Brault

“ Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? ”

- Antonio Porchia

“ We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. ”

- Christopher Isherwood

“ Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. ”

- John Lancaster Spalding

“ To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. ”

- John Burroughs

“ Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. ”

- Heraclitus

“ Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole. ”

- Unknown

“ What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ By daily dying I have come to be. ”

- Theodore Roethke

“ A gun gives you the body, not the bird. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer. ”

- Edward R. Murrow
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