Quotes About Philosophy

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god's hands. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God; that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City.

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?

Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.