Quotes About Philosophy

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.

.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Great men may die, but there ideas won't.

Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.

The wisest man knows he know nothing.

We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.