Quotes About Philosophy

The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is right.

Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you—well, of course you have an intellectual expression, and all that. But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself an exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.

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

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

I await the revises, and promise you not to 'make my quietus with a bare bodkin' till I have returned them. After that, I think of retiring. But first I would like to dine with you here. To leave life as one leaves a feast is not merely philosophy but romance.

But, to the philosopher, my dear Gerald, women represent the triumph of matter over mind - just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

I remember saying once to André Gide, as we sat together in some Paris café, that while meta-physics had but little real interest for me, and morality absolutely none, there was nothing that either Plato or Christ had said that could not be transferred immediately into the sphere of Art and there find its complete fulfilment.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

Bugünlerde herkes her ÅŸeyin fiyat?n? biliyor, fakat hiçbir ÅŸeyin deÄŸerini bilmiyorlar.

Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

Cada um de nós tem em si o Céu e o Inferno

Man know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. -Oscar Wilde

real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Wer nicht auf seine Weise denkt, denkt überhaupt nicht.

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

a beleza, a verdadeira beleza, acaba onde a expressão intelectual começa. O intelecto é já uma forma de exagero e destrói a harmonia de qualquer rosto.

To the philosopher women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

I am quite content with philosophic contemplation. But, as the nineteenth century has gone bankrupt through an over-expenditure of sympathy, I would suggest that we should appeal to science to put us straight. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose'-how does the quotation run?-'his own soul'?

Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been. Art is a symbol, because man is a symbol.

Che cosa è un cinico? Un uomo che sa il prezzo di tutte le cose e il valore di nessuna.

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