Quotes About Philosophy

The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

The fate of man is man.

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.

While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.

To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.

I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.