Quotes About Philosophy

let me whisper my belief, entre nous, that of those eminent philosophers who cry out against parsons the loudest, there are not many who have got their knowledge of the church by going thither often.

A celebrated philosopher — I think Miss Edgeworth — has broached the consolatory doctrine, that in intellect and disposition all human beings are entirely equal, and that circumstance and education are the causes of the distinctions and divisions which afterwards unhappily take place among them.

El mundo es un espejo que devuelve a cada uno su imagen.

God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn't, then he is not God and we need not worry.

With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.

All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. (Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.)

et tamen nihil est sciens vel quiescens, nisi actualiter sit sciens vel quiescens.

Plurality should not be assumed without necessity

Omnis homo praeter Sortem currit, igitur Plato currit et sic de aliis a Sorte.

When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Of all the wonders that I have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. (Act II, Scene 2)

Who is it that can tell me who I am?

William Shakespeare

And nothing is, but what is not.

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.

If it be now, 'tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.

Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.

What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.

In sooth, I know not why I am so sad: It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself.

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come?