Quotes About Philosophy

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Man created God in his own image.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.