Quotes About Philosophy

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.

Man must be invented each day

All man-made religions are limited. I go my own way.

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man.

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.

My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?

The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided.

The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.

If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.