Quotes About Philosophy

Where does thinking get us?' she said. 'All thinking does is bring you down.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals -- With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

this is life and all there is of life; to play the game, to play the cards we get; play them uncomplainingly and play them to the end. the playing of the game is the foregetting of self and play it bravely to the end

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. I'm not worried about my soul.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

The word is my fourth dimension.

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

Never again shall I understand anything I say. Since how could I speak without the word lying for me? How could I speak except timidly like this: life just is for me. Life just is for me, and I don't understand what I'm saying. And so I adore it.

I'm no more than a comma in life. I who am a colon. Thou, thou art my exclamation.

There are those who have. And there are those who have not. It's very simple: the girl had not. Hadn't what? Simply this: she had not. If you get my meaning that's fine. If you don't, it's still fine.

the most important word in the language has but two letters: is. Is.

La consuelo haciéndole entender que también yo padezco la vasta e informe melancolía de haber sido creado.

Refugiei-me na doideira porque a razão não me bastava.

I don't want to have the terrible limitation of those who live merely from what can make sense. Not I: I want an invented truth.

Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?