Quotes About Philosophy

A friend said to me, "I think the weather is trippy." I said, "No, man, it's not the weather that's trippy, perhaps it's the way we perceive it." And then I realized I just should have said, "Yeah."

The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.

To justify God's ways to man.

It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.

From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.

If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.