Quotes About Philosophy

The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.

I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.

One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

What is man but a mass of thawing clay?

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.

Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.

Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

Man's existence precedes his essence

There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.

Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.