Quotes About Philosophy

In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.

The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.

I don't believe in writing for goals, or else I'd write essays.

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.

I think there is an idea, a unique essence to every club.

An atheist has value only if this person is perfectly ethical.

The foundation of existence is not mere being itself (what is) but relationality (what is becoming): union is always toward more being.

Clinging to science was, when you got right down to it, just a god of a different flavor.

Today I have to screw on the expression of a person thought I am at most an animal and the animal I am spirals

The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.

He loved florid verbiage and jaw-jaw until he cuts himself on Occam's razor.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form

All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

There is, therefore, only one categorical imperative. It is: Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Out of wood so crooked and perverse as that which man is made of, nothing absolutely straight can ever be wrought.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.

There is… only a single categorical imperative and it is this: Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.