Quotes About Philosophy

Woman was God's second mistake.

Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they were born so long ago.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Supposing that Truth is a woman ---well, now, is there not some foundation for suspecting that all philosophers, insofar as they were dogmatists, have not known how to handle women?

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law

Love is not consolation. It is light

I once asked an old man: Which is more important to love or to be loved? He replied: which is more important to a bird, the left wing or the right wing?

Socrates should have written comics.

If there is no God, how do we explain that a machine requires a maker, but the universe does not.

When, at a closer glance, so many objects are questionable, when all knowledge seems to be clothed in a kind of deep unknowing, why do we still place any trust at all in reality as it appears to us, in the world in which we seem to live?

the task of philosophy is to start over from the beginning time and time again.

A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?

En el fondo, toda filosofía no era más que el canto lastimero de un niño que se ve obligado a ahuyentar el miedo que le causa la oscuridad.