Quotes About Philosophy

What a silly thing Love is,' said the Student as he walked away. 'It is not 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.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang TsÇ" spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

Lord Henry had not yet come in. He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

The trouble with socialism is that it takes up too many evenings.

I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Then you should certainly lecture on Philosophy, said the Dragon-fly

LORD GORING: ... All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity. It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world, whatever may.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

I talk so trivially about life because I think that life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

But strange that I was not told That the brain can hold In a tiny ivory cell God's heaven and hell.

I suppose one must be serious sometimes.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

Death is the only thing that ever terrifies me. I hate it.

Ah! I have talked quite enough for today, said Lord Henry, smiling. All I want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property. 

I am not a Pessimist. Indeed I am not sure that I quite know what Pessimism really means. All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, it cannot be lived without much charity. It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.' 'Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry?' asked the duchess after a pause. 'Especially when one has been wounded by it,' answered Lord Henry.

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

How dreadful! cried Lord Harry. I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

It is only intellectually lost who ever argue.

Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that.