Quotes About Philosophy

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.

Man has been lent, not given, to life.

Man lives in time but his life transcends time.

There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to talk about it. They won't even listen to the word death.

There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning more.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

Whatever is is a movement; man is a movement-to something other than man.

The man just is, but clothes are becoming.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain.