Quotes About Philosophy

"What do you think of God," the teacher asked. After a pause, the young pupil replied, "He's not a think, he's a feel."

To them that ask, where have you seen the Gods, or how do you know for certain there are Gods, that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

The glory that was Greece.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon, or live too long.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

Happy [is] the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

You can't lose weight without exercise. But I've got a philosophy about exercise. I don't think you should punish your legs for something your mouth did. Drag your lips around the block once or twice.

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lords, am on the side of the angels.

Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.