Quotes About Philosophy

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

I've always been a little skittish about death. On certain days I'm okay with it. On other days it's like, "Really? I have to? No, man, not me."

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.

The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this.

The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.

And can a man his own quietus make with a bare bodkin?

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man.

Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.

Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.

When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man

Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.