Quotes About Philosophy

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.

Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

Man can only conceive God within the limitation of his own mind.

My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.

A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

A wise man does nothing by constraint.

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.