Quotes About Philosophy

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things

If we take the world's enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?

Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.