Quotes About Philosophy

The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.

Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight for the democratization of design.

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality

If socialism means that we live well, that there is equality and justice, and that we have no social and economic problems, then I welcome it.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.