Quotes About Philosophy

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.

If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.

No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.

Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.