Quotes About Philosophy

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.

Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

When I hear that a man is religious, I conclude he is a rascal!

To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.

God is Man's greatest invention