Quotes About Philosophy

Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

These days man knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

The separation of spirit from matter was a mystery and the union of spirit with matter was a mystery also.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly for it expresses a need

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

The value of an idea has nothing to do with the honesty of the man expressing it.

Hoy en día la gente conoce el precio de todo y el valor de nada.

truth is rarely pure and never simple.

La belleza, la auténtica belleza, termina allí donde empieza la expresión intelectual. El intelecto es en sí mismo un modo de exageración y destruye la armonía de cualquier rostro. En cuanto uno se sienta a pensar, se vuelve todo nariz, o todo frente, o algo quizá más espantoso.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. 

I have known everything, said Lord Henry, with a tired look in his eyes, but I am always ready for a new emotion.

Art is not a thing. It is a way.

I never intend to grow old. The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

Love is wiser than Philosophy, though he is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty... His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.

I adore simple pleasures," said Lord Henry. "They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don't like scenes, except on the stage.

Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his way of fantastic grace, and the charm of the unreal. His muse had moods of terrible laughter. Behind his grotesques there seemed to lurk some curious philosophy…

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.

The less said about life's sores the better.

Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.

He played with the idea and grew wilful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy and winged it with paradox. The praise of folly, as he went on, soared into a philosophy, and philosophy herself became young

People nowadays are so absolutely superficial that they don't understand the philosophy of the superficial.