Quotes About Philosophy

I]f thou thinkest the infinite thou perceivest and affirmest the infinitude of the power of thought[.]

In Christianity, man was concentrated only on himself, he unlinked himself from the chain of sequences in the system of the universe, he made himself a self-sufficing whole, … [H]e no longer regarded himself as being immanent in the world, because he severed himself from connection with it[.]

This philosophy] does not … regard the pen as the only fit organ for the revelation of truth, but the eye and ear, the hand and foot

God is the mirror of man.

W]hen it is shown that what the subject is lies entirely in the attributes of the subject; … that the predicate is the true subject; it is also proved that if the divine predicates are attributes of the human nature, the subject of those predicates is also … human nature.

The doctrine of immortality is the final doctrine of religion; … it speaks out what it has hitherto suppressed. If elsewhere the religious soul concerns itself with the existence of another being, here it openly considers only its own existence[.]

La religion est le rêve de l'esprit humain

Samo je grob ?ovekov kolevka bogova.

Ein Philosoph ist ein Mann, der das Leben mit Fragen so stark belastet, daß es in sich geht: daß es in seine eigene Tiefe hinabsinkt.

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

Wherefore, fond wretch, dost thou grieve thus, for what is now a hideous mass of mortality — mere bones, and nerves, and veins? Nations have fallen unlamented; even worlds themselves, long ere this globe of ours was created, have mouldered into nothing; nor hath any one wept over them; why then should'st thou indulge this vain affliction for a child of the dust — a being as frail as thyself, and like thee the creature but of a moment?

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Wenn ich mich im Zusammenhang des Universums betrachte, was bin ich?

La música es una manifestación superior a toda sabiduría de la filosofía.

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

Doctrines which can stand the trial of logic and reason can do without persecuting skeptics.

Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.

Though the man of action, the politician, may sometimes pay no attention to the results of this examination, the man of thought will never cease to inquire into all things accessible to human intelligence. And in the long run thought must determine action.

It is not from a disdain of spiritual goods that liberalism concerns itself exclusively with man's material well-being, but from a conviction that what is highest and deepest in man cannot be touched by any outward regulation.