Quotes About Philosophy

I don't understand beauty.

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

Life wasn't perfect, but it wasn't supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw.

Everything is nothing, but the beauty of nothing is everthing

Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live.

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how old you were?

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.

Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy.

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.

After a while the press of business in the province put an end to our philosophizing, and I returned with increased determination to my plans to fly to the Moon.

People look at me as spiritual... but I am also very logical, very business-minded. The two come together.