Quotes About Philosophy

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

The truth is that we should live with less envy and more cordiality and empathy.

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want.

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit it left-handed and vice versa.

Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.