Quotes About Philosophy

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

There are many people who say there's a God somewhere up there but, God is nothing more than a formula. Just a part of some law of physics that we have yet to understand.

And it's even in some of the western literature, you know, live and let live. That is such crap. I tell my friends that--even my gay friends bring it up sometimes. I'm like, "That is crap, you know?" I mean, basically what it boils down to: If I don't tell you I'm a fag, you won't beat the crap out of me. I mean, what's so great about that? That's a great philosophy?

Para Aristóteles, el poder, la riqueza y las amistades eran los tres elementos que constituían la felicidad de una persona.

For Aristotle, power along with wealth and friendships were the three components that added up to a person's happiness.

Aristóteles, el poder, la riqueza y las amistades eran los tres elementos que constituían la felicidad de una persona. La

Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

Loin d'être aux lois d'un homme en esclave asservie, Mariez-vous, ma soeur, à la philosophie.

Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise;

Songez que les principes de votre vie sont en vous-même, et que le courroux de Monsieur Purgon est aussi peu capable de vous faire mourir que ses remèdes de vous faire vivre.

All human failings give us, in life, the means of exercising our philosophy

Hem dünyada kim var, hayat?nda bir kez olsun akl?n? kaybetmeyen?

Tous ces défauts humains nous donnent, dans la vie, Des moyens d'exercer notre philosophie

Aspire to the knowledge which is in the family, and feel the sweet charms which the love of study instils into peoples hearts. Far from being a submissive slave to the laws of men, wed yourself to Philosophy, sister, which elevates us above the whole human race, and invests reason with sovereign sway, subjecting to her laws the animal part, of which the gross appetite places us on a level with brutes.

Si vous songez à nourrir votre esprit, / C'est de viande bien creuse, à ce que chacun dit.

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

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

The world's perverse, but it could be worse.

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men (page 80).

Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing-In the end what have we lost? Nothing!