Quotes About Philosophy

Bibo, ergo sum. - I drink, therefore I am

We're all idealists, all materialists; and the final judgment or label is simply a matter of ideology, or, if you prefer, of political commitment.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

Perhaps it is expected that I should lament about how I have suffered living with a man like Diego. But I do not think that the banks of a river suffer because they let the river flow, nor does the earth suffer because of the rains, nor does the atom suffer for letting its energy escape. To my way of thinking, everything has its natural compensation.

Then one day followed the next without the basic questions of life ever being solved.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Im Paradoxen erscheint die Wirklichkeit.

Der Wirklichkeit ist mit Logik nur zum Teil beizukommen.

OCTAVIA Mi van önben több, mint egy állatban? NEGRO DA PONTE A világ nagyszer?sége és iszonyata.

Reality can be only partially attacked by logic.

Der Mensch ist für mich ein Wesen, das nur durch paradoxe, komödiantische Mittel, Formen, dargestellt werden kann, denn der Mensch geht nicht auf wie eine Rechnung, und wo der Mensch so aufgeht, ist die Rechnung sicher gefälscht.

The meaning of existence is existence, which insight, once accepted and affirmed, makes existence unbearable.

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

Ein Gott ist der Mensch, wenn er träumt, ein Bettler, wenn er nachdenkt.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation.

Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.