Quotes About Philosophy

Philosophy is a first rate thing to have, but you can't alleviate the gout with it, unless the gout happens to be on some other fellow.

Confucius perspired out more knowledge than the U.S. Senate has vocalized out in the last 50 years.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is the whole capital and stock in trade of man. It is all that can be changed, and embraces everything man has made or ever will make.

If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come from?

...there was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

Nature, in her blind thirst for life, has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature, and among them man is but one — perhaps the most miserable of all, because he is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?"

When I work as a beast, I drink as a beast. When I live like a man, I drink like a man.

You are metaphysicians. You can prove anything by metaphysics; and having done so, every metaphysician can prove every other metaphysician wrong—to his own satisfaction.

The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity. The scientist reasons inductively from the facts of experience.

There is no God but Fact, and Mr. Everhard is its prophet

El universo ha sido aniquilado, conmocionado hasta su destrucción; pero el hombre sigue siendo el mismo...

I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed. (from Who's Who in Hell)

Whether you do or think you do, it's the same thing. You spend what you haven't got, and in return you get greater value from spending what you haven't got than I get from spending what I have got, and what I have sweated to get.

God is bad, truth is a cheat, and life is a joke.

this finger is not I.  Cut it off.  I live.  The body is mutilated.  I am not mutilated.  The spirit that is I is whole.

Bir ?eyin neden oldu?u konusuna asla kafa yormad?. Nas?l oldu?u, ona yeterdi.

la vida resulta dichosa cuando se toma como viene.

He had a method of accepting things, without questioning the why and wherefore. 

He was never disturbed over why a thing happened.  How it happened was sufficient for him. 

Quanto a me, non mi preoccupo mai di sapere se abbia ragione o no. Questo non ha importanza alcuna: l'uomo non può mai giungere all'ultima verità.

GeçmiÅŸi olmayan ;geleceÄŸi önündeki mezardan,bugünüyse içindeki canh?raÅŸ hayat ateÅŸinden ibaret bir adamd?.

Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.

Two hours of loose philosophizing will never tilt the scale against the worth of one sound belch.