Quotes About Philosophy

The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

I go for really smart guys, ones who are well-read and can banter and argue. Men need to be able to take me out and have a few drinks, but by the end of the night we'll be talking about Nietzsche.

The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.

Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

The wise man's home is the universe.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.

How then, is it natural that the mind of man, being so small as contained in such narrow spaces as a brain or a heart, should have room for all the vastness of sky and Universe?

Man created God, not God, man

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.