Quotes About Philosophy

One who has both feet firmly planted in the air.

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Man, unlike the animal, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.

Man is the measure of all things.

A mark of maturity seems to be the range and extent of one's feeling of self-involvement in abstract ideals.

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.

There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain.

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.

Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.

Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.

Time is an illusion-to orators.

As Spinoza, or someone very much like him, once said . . .

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

There is nothing new under the sun.