Quotes About Philosophy

A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.

Every thing is of the nature of no thing.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

Being natural is the ultimate secret of our art.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.

I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature

If you're willing to answer yes to a God outside of nature, then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing to invade the natural world in a way that appears miraculous.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.