Quotes About Philosophy

Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.

What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.

What do those people think? That there is nothing more terrible than death. They themselves have invented Death, they are themselves afraid of it, and they try to frighten us with it.

And he was tortured not by the fact that Death was visible, but that both Life and Death were visible at the same time.

Darling stop being philosophical, it doesn't suit you, it makes your nose red.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway

Darling stop being philosophical it doesn't suit you, it makes your nose red.

God made integers, all else is the work of man.

Muchas de sus paradojas lógicas son hoy valoradas en gran manera por la Lógica más avanzada

Age is a function of mind over matter if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Indian activist, Mahatma Gandhi, who was a leader and guru, had a HUNGER for peace and justice. One of his sayings was, "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The great British philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood maintained in The Idea of History that to write well about a historical figure, you need both empathy and imagination. By this he did not mean spinning tales out of thin air, but taking what is known and examining it in the full context of time and place, following the strands of the story until they begin to intertwine and establish a thick braid of reality.

Even evils are transitory. So where to battle?

The Agnostic is one who asserts 'what no one denies' that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence.

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.

You and I are the boulder-pushers. All our lives, you and I, we'll put all our energies, all our talents into pushing a great boulder up a mountain. The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubted except on the basis of some other belief, indifference is always in danger of giving place to some sort of fanaticism that can be as intolerant as any religion has ever been.

The working concept of God for most ordinary Christians is - if one may venture a bold guess- shaped more by the combination of Greek philosophy and Islamic theology that was powerfully injected into the thought of Christendom at the beginning of the High Middle Ages than by the thought of the fathers of the first four centuries.

Natural theology, in other words, is in no way a step on the way toward the theology which takes God's self-revelation as its starting point. It is more likely, in fact, to lead in the opposite direction.

The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about "what is true for me" is an evasion of the serious business of living.

The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Marxism does not provide any specific method of solving questions that Marx did not put to himself or that did not exist in his time. If his life had been prolonged for ninety years he would have had to alter his views in ways that we have no means of conjecturing.

Is it not reasonable to suspect that if existence were pointless and the universe devoid of meaning, we would never have achieved not only the ability to imagine otherwise, but even the ability to entertain this very thought—to wit, that existence is pointless and the universe devoid of meaning.

The search for the ultimate foundation is as much an unremovable part of European culture as is the denial of the legitimacy of this search.