Quotes About Philosophy

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

You are a sceptic. Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith. What are you? To define is to limit.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.

The supreme vice is shallowness.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

What are you? To define is to limit.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

The overexamined life, Claire, it's not worth living.

The only interesting thing, said François Mitterrand, is to live.

Said, who was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1935, was fond of T. S. Eliot's idea that reality could not be deprived of the other echoes that inhabit the garden.

In his book Pensées, a collection of fragments of theology and philosophy, the seventeenth-century French philosopher Pascal suggested that all of humanity's problems stem from our inability to sit, alone, in one room.

Philosophie bedeutet, sein Leben zu denken und sein Denken zu leben. Besser denken um besser zu leben.

To the seeing eye decay is as fair as growth, and death as life.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

I slept and dreamt life is beauty, I woke and found life is duty.

Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.