Quotes About Philosophy

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

All art is quite useless.

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

Cecil Graham: What is a cynic? Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Cecil Graham: And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.

The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty. Flame-coloured are his wings, and coloured like flame is his body. His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.

Truth is independent of facts always.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.