Quotes About Philosophy

Up to now in the West none of the apostles of stabilization and petrification has succeeded in wiping out the individuals' innate disposition to think and to apply to all problems the yardstick of reason. This alone, and no more, history and philosophy can assert in dealing with doctrines that claim to know exactly what the future has in store for mankind.

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

Even in ancient times general recognition must have been accorded to the view which later in the shape of the maxim pecunia pecuniam parere non potest was to be the basis of all discussion of the problem of interest for hundreds and even thousands of years, and Aristotle undoubtedly did not state it in the famous passage in his Politics as a new doctrine but as a generally-accepted commonplace.2

The Bolshevists persistently tell us that religion is opium for the people. Marxism is indeed opium for those who might take to thinking and must therefore be weaned from it.

Unfortunately, purges are not something which happen just because men are imperfect. Purges are the necessary consequences of the philosophical foundation of Marxian socialism. If you cannot discuss philosophical differences of opinion in the same way you discuss other problems, you must find another solution—through violence and power. This refers not only to dissent concerning policies, economic problems, sociology, law, and so on. It refers also to problems of the natural sciences.

Na filosofia de Comte, bem como na de Marx, não há espaço para Deus e sua infinita bondade.

O valor não é intrínseco. Não está nas coisas e nas condições, mas no sujeito que as avalia.

the subjective theory of value

To a considerable extent, without knowing it, many people are philosophical Marxists, although they use different names for their philosophical ideas.

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity

If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert on us.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it…. It leaves everything as it is.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

What is your aim in philosophy?---To shew the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.