Quotes About Philosophy

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.

Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

Man will not live without answers to his questions.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.

Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.