Quotes About Philosophy

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

Pure truth no man has seen, nor ever shall know.

God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.

Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.

The liberal says the end of religion is to make man happy while he's alive. And the fundamentalist says the end of religion is to make man happy when he dies.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.