Quotes About Philosophy

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

Men die and they are not happy.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property

An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

A man should be religious, not superstitious.

Man's character is the product of his premises.

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.