Quotes About Philosophy

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

Let me embrace thee sour adversity for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion?

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

If socialism gave more prosperity than capitalism does, I would still prefer capitalism - as it gives more freedom. Luckily, though, I do not have to face this dillema.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

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

Freedom begins between the ears.

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.