Quotes About Philosophy

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.

Notice that all the traditional things philosophers do, looking for validity and soundness, promote civic friendship. That sounds pretty pie in the sky, yes, but I actually believe it.

Mathematics speaks to the transcendental, as does this extraordinary friendship. A beautiful book!

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

I don't believe in reincarnation, and I didn't believe in it when I was a hamster.

What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?

Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts longer.

Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

I drink therefore I am.

In math two negatives multiplied together make a positive, in life two wrongs don't make it right!

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder. To search for the truth.

I feel I am free but I know I am not.

Philosophy inspires you to live a better life by being better to yourself.

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

He who lives, sooner or later, will die. He who does not is already dead and doesn't know it.

Death is something we can't run away from but we can embrace it.

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens

If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no more than the death of any other person