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Quotes About Philosophy

The trust of a child to carry them from the ashes of a corrupt world to a world of transcension is the greatest duty he and I and The Philosophy could ever undertake.
~ Unknown
The way of philosophy is to disagree, justify, and to revel in such diversity.
~ Unknown
There shall be no narrowness in Him or in The Philosophy.
~ Unknown
There's always work to be done for the furtherance of philosophy.
~ Unknown
This world is all subjectivity.
~ Unknown
This world is lost, and The Philosophy must save it.
~ Unknown
To create The Philosophy as it does now exist, the youth and the sacrifice of my youth has been necessary.
~ Unknown
Understanding me, this, him isn't possible without first understanding that which created me, this and him and for that, you will need an eternity of knowledge.
~ Unknown
Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Oh if only instead of being a hell, the universe had been an immense anus!
~ Comte de Lautreamont
it is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities; but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Ma subjectivité et le Créateur, c'est trop pour un cerveau.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
O, if only, instead of being a hell, the universe had been an immense celestial anus!
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Hélas! qu'est-ce donc que le bien et le mal! Est-ce une même chose par laquelle nous témoignons avec rage nôtre impuissance, et la passion d'atteindre à l'infini par les moyens même les plus insensés?
~ Comte de Lautreamont
mais, mets-te le dans la tête, pour ne jamais l'oublier : les loups et les agneaux ne se regardent pas avec des yeux doux. » Que me fallait-il donc, à moi, qui rejetais, avec tant de dégoût, ce qu'il y avait de plus beau dans l'humanité! ce qu'il me fal-lait, je n'aurais pas su le dire. Je n'étais pas encore habitué à me rendre un compte rigou-reux des phénomènes de mon esprit, au moyen des méthodes que recommande la philosophie.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
To philosophize is to think without the benefit of proof (if proof exists, it is no longer philosophy), which is not to say that any thought and all ways of thinking are, philosophically speaking, equally valid.
~ Comte-Sponville André
El bien es la victoria sobre el mal, la negación del mal. Si se canta el bien, el mal es eliminado por ese oportuno acto. No canto lo que no hay que hacer. Canto lo que hay que Hacer. Lo primero no contiene lo segundo. Lo segundo contiene lo primero.
~ Unknown
As James Madison put it in Federalist No. 40, "The choice must always be made, if not one of the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT good." And in the last of the Federalist Papers, he said, "I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.
~ Condoleezza Rice
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
~ Confucious
Learning without thought is labor lost.
~ Confucius
Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity and kindness.
~ Confucius
Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.
~ Confucius
In the morning, hear the Way; in the evening, die content!
~ Confucius
If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.
~ Confucius