Quotes About Philosophy

My karma ran over your dogma.

There are actions which the whole world considers fine... They will say the same of great moral maxims; of that of Zoroaster: "If in doubt that an action be just, desist;" of that of Confucius: "Forget injuries; never forget kindnesses."

Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense.

...certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort...

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it... Being alive is the meaning.

Life is questions and answers, ebbing and flowing in endless waves

Ah! my dear Count, life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

When everything doesn't go perfectly as hoped, it isn't tragedy — it's life.

Ethics and Logic should be the most generally studied, because all practise them whether they have studied them or not.

Meanwhile I am consoling myself for your absence by finding my advantage in it — shining like Hesperus when Hyperion has departed... I never held it my forte to be a severe reasoner, but I can see that if whatever is best is A, and B happens to be best, B must be A, however little you might have expected it beforehand.

Plato said that God geometrizes continually.

There is no prophet that preaches the superpersonal God more plainly than mathematics...

God is real, unless declared integer.

The odd number is held to be immortal, because it cannot well be divided.

We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of exact science are mathematics and logic: the mathematical sect puts out the logical eye, the logical sect puts out the mathematical eye; each believing that it sees better with one eye than with two. The consequences are ludicrous.

If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be net neutrality.

Of course I look at the glass half full. The only time I would look at it half empty is when I think about how good the first half tasted.

...the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy; and Common-wealth, the mother of Peace, and Leisure: Where first were great and flourishing Cities, there was first the study of Philosophy.

Philosophy is just a hobby. You can't open a philosophy factory.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. There have been added, however, some grasp of the immensity of things, some purification of emotion by understanding.

Let the sublimated philosopher grasp visionary happiness while pursuing phantoms dressed in the garb of truth! Their supreme wisdom is supreme folly: and they mistake for happiness the mere absence of pain. Had they ever felt the solid pleasure of one generous spasm of the heart, they would exchange for it all the frigid speculations of their lives...

To live alone, one must be a beast or a god — says Aristotle — leaving out the third case: that one must be both — a philosopher.