Quotes About Philosophy

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

We need wisdom the most when we believe in it the least.

I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.