Quotes About Philosophy

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

Was man made for science, or was science made for man?

But if God is gone and man is no longer master, then who is master?

Though a child of man knows time, life itself is eternal.

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men.

I have come to realise that men are not born to be free.

Jesus Chris was more than man.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.

Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.

Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: 'Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe'

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

The true science and study of mankind is man.

The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.