Quotes About Philosophy

A man in health questions whether there is a God, and he also doubts whether it be a sin to have intercourse with a woman, who is at liberty to refuse ; but when he falls ill, or when his mistress is with child, she is discarded, and he believes in God.

Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.

A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

Death and the sun can't be looked at steadily.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.

A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that philosophical biologist, or that philosopher sufficiently acquainted with scientific biology, who subjects the modern doctrine of evolution to a thoroughly critical analysis, with a view to detect and to estimate its metaphysical assumptions.

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Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.

Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.

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

A che pro disegnare l'Impossibile? Perché è la verità, forse velata e mascherata, ma eterna.

the history of ethics and aesthetics,—all these and many other matters remain obscure.

The human mind has to ask "Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?" And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions.

No one has the answer: we are answer and question.

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.

It's not easy having a paradox at the core of one's own being.

The Greek philosopher Epictetus said, "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master or death is.

What are you?" he asked. Not who, but what.