Quotes About Philosophy

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

Man as a pure animal does not exist

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

"Is God a Man or a Woman ?" The answer to this question is neither God is That. But if you must give God a gender, God is more female than male, for he is contained in She.

Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.

Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.