Quotes About Philosophy

Truth is a slippery concept." "No, the great thing about the truth is that it's true.

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names

Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

I would rather be wrong with Plato than right with such men as these [the Pythagoreans].

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

O philosophy, you leader of life.

There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it.

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die.

We must learn to accept that there is no meaning to life, but this raises the question whether life is worth living at all – which he saw as the fundamental question of philosophy.

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

Nevertheless, although they were thinner then the thinnest vapour, yet were they not so thin as the body of air, or else they would not be perceptible by animal sight.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.