Quotes About Philosophy

the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.

Leadership is knowing how to distill complexity into a comprehensible message to reach the hearts and minds of the larger world. ~ Using philosophy and history to create emotional appeals to shape broad public sentiment.

Question with boldness even the existence of God, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

The experience of death must ultimately be the experience of life, or else it is only a wraith.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

what time actually is--nothing less than a silent sister, a column of mercury without a scale, for the purpose of keeping people from cheating.

Die Freiheit existiert, und auch der Wille existiert; aber die Willensfreiheit existiert nicht, denn ein Wille, der sich auf seine Freiheit richtet, stößt ins Leere.

What, she's French?' he repeats. And what do you suppose this tall dragoon says next?—'An émigrée, you mean?' he says. 'But then she must be an enemy of philosophy!

La barbarie n est le contraire de la culture que dans le cadre de la hierarchie de pensee que celle-ci nous propose.

So long as we are, death is not; and when death is present, we are not. In other words, between death and us there is no rapport; it is something with which we have nothing to do - and only incidentally the world and nature.

Aja kombel toob ka ruum unustust, vabastades inimisiksuse tema sidemetest ning juhtides ta tagasi kunagisse vabasse algolekusse ning tehes isegi pedandist ja filistrist ühe hetkega vagabundi.

Man himself is a mystery, and all humanity rests upon reverence before the mystery that is man.

Don't you like the sight of a coffin? I really do. I find it a handsome piece of furniture, even empty; when someone is lying in it, then, in my eyes, it is positively sublime.

l'homme, lui aussi, est un être dualiste. Le problème de son âme consiste dans le conflit entre le physique et le métaphysique, et tout ce qui est social demeure secondaire.

What was one day, taken for instance from the moment one sat down to the midday meal to the same moment four-and-twenty hours afterwards? It was, to be sure, four-and-twenty hours—but equally it was the simple sum of nothings.

Bien écrire, c'est déjà presque bien penser, et il n'y a pas loin de là jusqu'à bien agir.

C'est un fait que nous ne venons de soulever la question de savoir s'il est possible de raconter le temps, que pour avouer que c'était bien là notre dessein dans l'histoire en cours.

My God, I am a humanist, a homo humanus , and understand nothing of such ingenious matters, however sincere my deep respect for them.

Reposar en la perfección es el anhelo de todo el que se esfuerza por alcanzar lo sublime; y ¿no es acaso la nada una forma de perfección?

Questa è la risposta di Orazio, mia cara Lisaweta. 'Considerare le cose in questo modo significherebbe considerarle con troppa precisione,' non è vero?

Das Ewige stimmt quietistisch. Das Menschliche ist dem Politischen im Grunde fremd.