Quotes About Philosophy

common sense is as rare as genius,—is the basis of genius, and experience is hands and feet to every enterprise;—

The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.

Un jour, j'irai vivre en Théorie, car en Théorie, tout se passe bien.

É por isso, meus caros Símias e Cebete, que os verdadeiros filósofos se acautelam contra os apetites do corpo, resistem-lhes e não se deixam dominar por eles; não têm medo da pobreza nem da ruína de sua própria casa, como a maioria dos homens, amigos das riquezas, nem temem a falta de honrarias e a vida inglória, como se dá com os amantes do poder e das distinções

Ânito e Meleto podem matar-me, mas não me podem fazer mal. Platão, Apologia de Sócrates (30 C-D)

Todos os que afirmam saber as coisas sobre as quais medito, seja por tê-las ouvido de mim, seja por tê-las ouvido de outros, seja por tê-las descoberto sozinhos, não é possível, segundo meu parecer, que tenham entendido algo desse objeto. Sobre essas coisas não existe um texto escrito meu nem existirá jamais.

Temer a morte, Atenienses, não é mais que julgar ser sábio,sem o ser, porque é imaginar que se sabe o que se não sabe. É que ninguém sabe o que é a morte nem se, por acaso, ela será para o homem o maior dos bens. Mas temem-na como se soubessem com segurança que é o maior dos males.

Kötülük ölümden daha h?zl? koÅŸar.

Ölüm iki ÅŸeyden biridir: ya bir hiçlik, büsbütün ÅŸuursuzluk halidir, yahut da, herkesin dediÄŸi gibi ruhun bu dünyadan ayr?larak baÅŸka bir dünyaya geçmesidir

The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil. -The Last Days of Socrates

Man is a being in search of meaning.

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

Books are immortal sons defying their sires.

No human thing is of serious importance.

The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.