Philosophical Quotes — Page 27

Philosopher, Writer

“He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.”

Worry Commitment Perspective

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Henri Nouwen

Theologian, Author

“You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.”

Thinking Way Inspirational

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Otto von Bismarck

Statesman, Chancellor

“God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.”

America Special

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Galileo Galilei

Astronomer, Physicist

“Nonetheless, it moves.”

Moving

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Bob Marley

Musician, Singer-Songwriter

“None but ourselves can free our minds.”

Inspirational Life Music

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Isaac Newton

Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer

“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.”

Beautiful Powerful God

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Cyrus the Great

King

“O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.”

Men Earth Army

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

Inspirational Life Death

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Pythagoras

Philosopher, Mathematician

“Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that... As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms.”

Soul Different Body

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Bell Hooks

Author, Feminist, Social Activist

“To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.”

Reality Inspiring Roots

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Rachel Carson

Biologist, Conservationist, Author

“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.”

Years Running Moving

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Marcel Proust

Novelist

“My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”

Way Destination New Ways

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