Quotes About Philosophy

Reason is an emotion for the sexless.

All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a second marriage in my house; Divorced old barren reason from my bed, And took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you will be nothing.

Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons, if sincere, can have the same philosophy.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered; it is something moulded.

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance.

There will be sex after death; we just won't be able to feel it.

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.