Quotes About Philosophy

Ä°yilik etmek, insan yüreÄŸinin duyabileceÄŸi mutluluklar?n en gerçeÄŸidir. Yazg?ma egemen olanlar bana her ÅŸeyin yalan ve aldat?c? görünmesine özen gösterdikleri için, herhangi bir erdem konusu, beni düÅŸürmek istedikleri tuzaÄŸa çekmeye yarayan bir hileden baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

In instinct alone, man had everything he needed in order to live in the state of nature; in a cultivated reason, he has only what he needs to live in society.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential thinkers during the Enlightenment in eighteenth century Europe.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nous voyons, même de nos jours, que les gouvernements qui se conduisent le mieux sont ceux dont on parle le moins. Nous ne savons donc que le mal ; à peine le bien fait-il époque. Il n'y a que les méchants de célèbres, les bons sont oubliés ou tournés en ridicule : et voilà comment l'histoire, ainsi que la philosophie, calomnie sans cesse le genre humain.

Ce principe établi, il s'ensuit que la femme est faite spécialement pour plaire à l'homme. Si l'homme doit lui plaire à son tour, c'est d'une nécessité moins directe : son mérite est dans sa puissance ; il plaît par cela seul qu'il est fort. Ce n'est pas ici la loi de l'amour, j'en conviens ; mais c'est celle de la nature, antérieure à l'amour même.

Ma mémoire, qui me retrace uniquement les objets agréables, est l'heureux contrepoids de mon imagination effarouchée, qui ne me fait prévoir que de cruels avenirs.

In the midst of so much philosophy, humanity, and civilization, and of such sublime codes of morality, we have nothing to show for ourselves but a frivolous and deceitful exterior, honor without virtue, reason without wisdom, and pleasure without happiness.

Putting the law above man is a problem in politics which I liken to that of squaring the circle in geometry.

On sent, je crois, qu'avoir de la religion, pour un enfant, et même pour un homme, c'est suivre celle où il est né. Quelquefois on en ôte ; rarement on y ajoute ; la foi dogmatique est un fruit de l'éducation.

If instead of making a child stick to his books I employ him in a workshop, his hands work for the development of his mind. While he fancies himself a workman he is becoming a philosopher.

Si c'est la raison qui fait l'homme, c'est le sentiment qui le conduit.

Men are wicked, yes, but man is good.

Since everything that comes into the human mind enters through the gates of sense, man's first reason is a reason of sense-experience. It is this that serves as a foundation for the reason of the intelligence; our first teachers in natural philosophy are our feet, hands, and eyes. To substitute books for them does not teach us to reason, it teaches us to use the reason of others rather than our own; it teaches us to believe much and know little.

He was freer and less constrained in the womb; he has gained nothing by birth.

Romans had been content to practice virtue; all was lost when they began to study it.

Kept talking about how she's studying every holy book she can get her hands on, aiming to understand God's word. I quoted St. Augustine to her. 'If you understand it, it isn't God.' Gave her a cup of chamomile tea.

Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time. That

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell.

It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.