Quotes About Philosophy

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.

Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us.