Quotes About Philosophy

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.

Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!

This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

Books are men of higher stature.

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.

I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

Man makes god in his own image.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.