Quotes About Philosophy

A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free.

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.

The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.

What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.

The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.

You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?

The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum

Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.