Quotes About Philosophy

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.

I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

Any man who is not a communist at the age of 20 is a fool.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.

Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.

Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.