Quotes tagged ‘Philosophical’

(31 total)

“There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.”

“Hobb: Robert, these machines are conscious! Robert: How do you know they don't just simulate it? Hobb: How do I know you don't?”

— Jonathan Brackley, Sam Vincent, Hobb, Danny Webb, imdb.com

“This is because the outcomes of life are not governed by passion, they are governed by principle.”

— Brianna Wiest, shopcatalog.com

“What I do to get rid of pressure is say, ‘It doesn’t matter.’ It makes life a lot easier. ... We think it’s so important what we’re doing. ... But you have an earthquake in India where 100,000 people die. You’ll have some huge problem going on in Africa where so many people are just being killed vic…”

— Donald Trump, edition.cnn.com

“If you really want peace, it starts with you.”

— Ray Utarnachitt, Tyron Carter, Zari Adrianna Tomaz / Isis, Tala Ashe, imdb.com

“One thing that time travel teaches you is that time changes, people don’t.”

— Andrew Kreisberg, Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Phil Klemmer, Rip Hunter, Arthur Darvill, imdb.com

“One person acting alone can't save the world.”

— Chris Fedak, Marc Guggenheim, Rip Hunter, Arthur Darvill, imdb.com

“The best magic tricks have the simplest solutions.”

— Cortney Norris, Anderson MacKenzie, Rip Hunter, Arthur Darvill, imdb.com

“When you get a bunch of broken pieces, and you put them all together the right way, they make something new, and suddenly, they don’t feel so broken anymore.”

— Grainne Godfree, James Eagan, Jefferson 'Jax' Jackson, Franz Drameh, imdb.com

“Fate is a prison. When free will is gone, what’s left?”

— Cortney Norris, Sarah Nicole Jones, Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl, Ciara Renee, imdb.com

“Shadow: Did you always believe? Jesus: Did I always believe? I am belief, Shadow. I don't know how not to believe. Shadow: I don't think I know how to. I think I maybe don't...don't really believe. You know, I don't really believe any of this. And maybe everything that's happened so far is just some…”

— Maria Melnik, Shadow Moon, Ricky Whittle, imdb.com

“Roxie: This is journalism, you write the truth and let the chips fall where they may. Sabrina: But what if the chips destroy somebody? Roxie: I think I'm beginning to understand who Sabrina Spellman is. You can't handle the truth! Sabrina: I can handle the truth. I just can't handle the guilt.”

— Laurie Gelman, Sabrina Spellman, Melissa Joan Hart, imdb.com

“We trust that time is linear. That it proceeds eternally, uniformly. Into infinity. But the distinction between past, present and future is nothing but an illusion. Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.”

— Jantje Friese, The Stranger, Andreas Pietschmann, imdb.com

“It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.”

— John Dewey, amazon.com

“Those who serve best don't always understand.”

— Czeslaw Milosz, herosjourneyfoundation.org

“This world is just a speck of dust sitting on a much, much bigger world. There's no dominating it.”

— Roberto Patino, Ron Fitzgerald, Bernard Lowe, Jeffrey Wright, imdb.com

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

— Martin Heidegger, amazon.com

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”

— Alan Watts, amazon.com

“Happiness is not how many things you do, but how well you do them.”

— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com

“All stories begun and enacted by men unfold their true meaning only when they have come to their end.”

— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com