Quotes About Philosophy

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence with the great French Revolution.

I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

At my age, I dont even buy green bananas.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with us forever.

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.

In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt.

The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.