Quotes About Philosophy

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Philosophy is its own time comprehended in thoughts.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

my philosophy of raising kids is kind of extreme. I think you should keep a baby around for a few days after it's born—until the novelty wears off—and then you put it in a big cardboard box with all the best books of Eastern and Western civilization. Then you bury the box and dig it up again when the kid's eighteen.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

For no one's authority ought to rank so high as to set a value on his words and terms even though nothing clear and determinate lies behind them.

The same principles which at first view lead to scepticism, pursued to a certain point bring men back to common sense.

Believe me, the world always was, and always will be the same, as long as men are men.

When a man dies a world perishes--the world which he bore in his head. The more intelligent the head, the more clear, significant, and comprehensive was its world, the more terrible its destruction.

The primary aim of all religions and philosophical systems is to furnish an antidote to the certainty of death.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

Berkeley's belief was that such a view, despite its assertion of God and human minds or souls, is an implicit encouragement to atheism.

The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

The greatest thing in life is to die young — but delay it as long as possible.

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.