Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it’s like gold; after you understand it, it’s like dung.
  philosophy motivational sayings by  Zen Saying

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.
  Quote By  Woody Allen~Inspirational philosophy quote

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
  philosophy motivational sayings by  Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both – a philosopher.
  Quote By  Friedrich Nietzsche~Inspirational philosophy quote

My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.
  philosophy motivational sayings by  Louisa May Alcott, in Life, Letters, and Journals, ed. E.D. Cheney, 1889

The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word fuck.
  Quote By  Author Unknown~Inspirational philosophy quote

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don’t have in my mouth.
  philosophy motivational sayings by  Albert Einstein

Philosophy is just a hobby. You can’t open a philosophy factory.
  Quote By  Dewey Selmon~Inspirational philosophy quote