Quotes About Philosophy

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.

Man must become better and more evil.

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.