Quotes About Philosophy

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.

Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

Men who not religious or artists are fools.

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.

With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting

Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.

A man lives by believing something.

To Contemplation's sober eye. / Such is the race of Man.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan