Quotes About Philosophy

A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not'

Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die.

I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

What year did Jesus think it was?

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

For me, fantasy must be about something, otherwise it's foolishness... ultimately it must be about human beings, it must be about the human condition, it must be another look at infinity, it must be another way of seeing the paradox of existence.

Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.

That zero and one were sufficient for logic as well as arithmetic was established by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1679, following the lead given by Thomas Hobbes in his Computation, or Logique of 1656.

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living"; so wrote Henri Amiel in 1874.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

Cullmann contrasts the deaths of Socrates and Jesus, pointing out that Socrates died impassively and heroically, while Jesus cried out in real fear of death.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

And in spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

All books are merely delayed dust.

Were it not madness to deny To live because we're sure to die?

there is a sense of loneliness: the philosophers are called "weeds" (naw?bit), like the grass that springs up among the crops; they are strangers in their own country,

until the interview with the Prince Ibn Rushd was unaware of his favourable interest in philosophy, and feared some harsh penalty if he himself were known to be occupied in such a study.