Quotes About Philosophy

We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right…. We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing…. I do not understand it…. Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is E?___, which is to say, I suspend my judgment.

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.

My trade and art is to live.

My trade and my art is living.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Poutine serait-il féru de philosophie ? Allons donc ! L'homme préfère l'histoire, la littérature, et surtout le sport. Il n'est pas un intellectuel. Il adore raconter sa jeunesse de voyou et d'espion plutôt que d'évoquer ses études à la faculté de droit de Saint-Pétersbourg.

Cette doctrine s'étage sur plusieurs plans : à partir d'un héritage soviétique assumé et d'un libéralisme feint, le premier plan est une vision conservatrice. Le deuxième, une théorie de la Voie russe. Le troisième, un rêve impérial inspiré des penseurs eurasistes. Le tout sous le signe d'une philosophie à prétention scientifique.

Les sources philosophiques du poutinisme, si diverses soient-elles, reposent toutes sur deux piliers : l'idée d'empire et l'apologie de la guerre. C'est le noyau commun du soviétisme, de l'impérialisme "blanc" d'Ilyine, du conservatisme de Leontiev (dans certaines de ses œuvres), du panslavisme de Danilevski, de l'eurasisme, que ce soit celui des fondateurs ou celui de Douguine, aujourd'hui.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

To philosophize is to doubt.

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it.