Quotes About Philosophy

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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

Le dramatique de la viellesse ce n'est pas qu'on se fait vieux, c'est qu'on reste jeune.

El vicio supremo es la superficialidad.

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

Nay! for perchance that poppy-crownèd god Is like the watcher by a sick man's bed Who talks of sleep but gives it not; his rod Hath lost its virtue, and, when all is said, Death is too rude, too obvious a key To solve one single secret in a life's philosophy. And

Soul and body, body and soul--how mysterious they were! There was animalism in the soul, and the body had its moments of spirituality.

And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.

Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

I'm lonely, Jeeves.' 'You have a great many friends,sir.' 'What's the good of friends?' 'Emerson,' I reminded him,'says a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature,sir.' 'Well, you can tell Emerson from me next time you see him that he's an ass.' 'Very good, sir.

No, the man said, looking past him with his empty gaze, the realm of the dead isn't anything. But to those who have been there, nothing else is anything either.

What would life be like if it were not futile? Futility is the foundation upon which it rests. On what other foundation could it have been based which would have held and never given way? A great idea can be undermined by another great idea and, in due course, be demolished by it. But futility is inaccessible, indestructible, immovable. It is a true foundation and that is why it has been chosen as such.

If there were more men like you, Mr. Wooster, London would be a better place. This was dead opposite to my Aunt Agatha's philosophy of life, she always having rather given me to understand that it is the presence in it of chappies like me that makes London more or less of a plague spot; but I let it go.

Work, the hobby of the philosopher and the poor man's friend.

No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life. Why? he asked, opening both his eyes. Because sometimes it's either laugh or cry. I prefer laugh. How about you?

Do you ever get moods when life seems absolutely meaningless? It's like a badly-constructed story, with all sorts of characters moving in and out who have nothing to do with the plot. And when somebody comes along that you think really has something to do with the plot, he suddenly drops out. After a while you begin to wonder what the story is about, and you feel that it's about nothing—just a jumble.

Hear that, Eustace? He wishes we were staying a good long time. I expect it will seem a good long time, said Eustace, philosophically.

I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare – or, if not, some equally brainy bird – who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneakes up behind him with a bit of lead piping

You won't mind my calling you Comrade, will you? I've just become a socialist. It's a great scheme. You ought to be one. You work for the equal distribution of property, and start by collaring all you can and sitting on it.