Quotes About Philosophy

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

Wisdom that don't make us happier ain't worth plowing for.

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught. You have the wisdom of your race. Be content.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

I only know that I know nothing

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

It's too sad to live eating theories. The best thing is to transmute wisdom into love.

Luck never made a man wise.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

The death of the self lies in the life of the heart

Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.