Quotes About Philosophy

But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?

Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable with the word God because I don't have the foggiest idea of what it means.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.

The wise man sayth, store is no sore.

We are for religion against the religions.

For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.

Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

Do not desire a long life or an early death

My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.

My own philosophy is that one should share what wisdom he has, one should help others to help themselves and one should keep going despite heavy weather, for there is always a calm ahead.