Quotes About Philosophy

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his Inferiors, so there are many Degrees of Beings superior to him.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

Man is neither angel nor beast.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

If a man knew how to live he would never die.

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all men.

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it

My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

...and it is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it.

Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.