Quotes About Philosophy

The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

If you ain't thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin about nothin'.

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

Man's best friend is his dogma.

The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.

Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.

Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.

It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.