Quotes About Philosophy

Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.

Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

For too long already we have talked about man; let us finally talk about God again.

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

The Working Man's Creed: "A short day is better than a short dollar" .

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'

The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.