Quotes About Philosophy

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

sejarah menjadikan orang bijaksana, puisi menjadikan orang fasih lidah, matematika menjadikan orang cerdik, filsafat menyebabkan orang berpikir dalam, moral menjadikan orang bersikap sungguh-sungguh, logika dan ilmu berpidato menjadikan orang berani mengeluarkan pendapat.

What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born, to die?

It's all so meaningless, we may as well be extraordinary.

Aristippus said: That those that studied particular sciences, and neglected philosophy, were like Penelope's wooers, that made love to the waiting women.

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

So if any man think philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied.  And this I take to be a great cause that hath hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage. 

Aristotle ... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious...

the specious meditations, speculations, and theories of mankind are but a kind of insanity, only there is no one to stand by and observe it.

Jika kita memulainya dengan kepastian, kita akan berakhir dengan keraguan,tetapi jika memulainya dengan keraguan, dan bersabar menghadapinya, kita akan berakhir dengan kepastian

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

Olan olmuÅŸtur art?k, bir daha deÄŸiÅŸtirilemez, dolay?s?yla bilge kiÅŸiler ancak ÅŸimdiyle gelecekle uÄŸra??r, geçmiÅŸte olup bitenlerle uÄŸraÅŸanlar ise boÅŸa zaman harcam?? olurlar.

We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Men create oppositions, which are not; and put them into new terms, so fixed, as whereas the meaning ought to govern the term, the term in effect governeth the meaning.

?esto sam razmišljao o smrti i zaklju?io da je ponajmanje od svih zala.

Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it. Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson

man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the Universe, and the human mind resembles these uneven mirrors which impart their own properties to different objects, from which rays are emitted and distort and disfigure them.

For this is but to dash the first table against the second; and so to consider men as Christians, as we forget that they are men. Lucretius the poet, when he beheld the act of Agamemnon, that could endure the sacrificing of his own daughter, exclaimed: Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum.

What would he have said, if he had known of the massacre in France, or the powder treason of England?

But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: Shall we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also? And so of friends in a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well.

Nevertheless, with regard to philosophies of this kind there is one caution not to be omitted; for I foresee that if ever men are roused by my admonitions to betake themselves seriously to experiment and bid farewell to sophistical doctrines, then indeed through the premature hurry of the understanding to leap or fly to universals and principles of things, great danger may be apprehended from philosophies of this kind, against which evil we ought even now to prepare.

But the Idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all — idols which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words; but it is also true that words react on the understanding; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive.