Quotes About Philosophy

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?

This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?

When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing.

I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back.

There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.

What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?

The Dalai Lama once said that 'If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change!' This is a great thought! And great thoughts belong to great men only!

If being stupid is the only way for an intelligent man to be happy, then let us hope that unhappiness be his choice!

Are you cold when you are happy? Are you cold when you are unhappy? Then you are a wise man! Wisdom makes man cool and calm. Wise man is cool and calm!

As long as death exists, men will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing!

Every man must be like Stephen Hawking. His body is here on earth, but his mind walks in the universe!

In the eye of the universe, man is nothing! And man's hardest job is to be able to get rid of this nothingness!

Water jokes about the obstacles on its way; wise man jokes about the obstacles on his way!

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

When a man calls himself an atheist, he is not attacking God; he is attacking his own conscience.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.