Quotes About Philosophy

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility? {Said in a letter to Voltaire }

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older

if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

Is our conception of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

Wenn ein Buch und ein Kopf zusammenstoßen und es klingt hohl, ist das allemal im Buch?

Vorstellungen sind auch ein Leben und eine Welt

Si un ángel nos hablara de su filosofía, creo que algunas frases muy bien podrían sonar como "2 por 2 son 13".

Deus criou o homem à sua imagem. Isso provavelmente significa: o homem criou Deus à sua própria imagem.

Me parece imposible demostrar que somos la obra de un ser superior y no el pasatiempo de uno bastante defectuoso.

Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Sren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist, try to give your existence a meaning by setting up for yourself as lofty and noble a goal as you can.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.