Quotes About Philosophy

Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?

How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish.

Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

Many have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.

Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances

And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

It was man who first made men believe in gods.

Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are other than sick men's dreams.

Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.

Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.

A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.