Quotes About Philosophy

There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

Men and times change-but principles-never.

Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.

A man is an angel that has gone deranged.

Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

"To think the way you do," he said smiling, "you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope." "On both, perhaps."

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.