Quotes About Philosophy

...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.

Ideas are the source of all things

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.

Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.

My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

The store of wisdom does not consist of hard coins which keep their shape as they pass from hand to hand; it consists of ideas and doctrines whose meanings change with the minds that entertain them.

To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!

The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

Devil and God – two sides of the same face.