Quotes About Philosophy

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.

The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.

A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.

There are a lot of things in life way more important than money. All that said, some people do get confused. I play golf with a man who says, " What good is health? You can't buy money with it."

If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.

The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.

Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.