Quotes About Philosophy

O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

I am the rich man's guru.

Let man be true and every god a liar.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.

Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.