Quotes About Philosophy

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.

Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.

You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

Logic, when used correctly and by an intellect that is not corrupted by the lower passions, may lead to one to the Transcendent itself.

It is a meaningful thing for a scientist of the stature of Ibn Sina, certainly one of the best scientific minds in the whole history of mankind, to often resort to prayer to seek God's help in solving his philosophical and scientific problems. And it is also perfectly understandable why the purification of the soul is considered an integral part of the methodology of knowledge.

Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if the reason coincides with the very principle of things.

There is always with us that odd little sect of heretics which believes that the stars are busy with the little business of our lives.

My strong advice to you is to soak, soak, soak in philosophy and psychology, until you know more of these subjects than ever you need consciously to think. It is ignorance of these subjects on the part of ministers and workers that has brought our evangelical theology to such a sorry plight. . . . The man who reads only the Bible does not, as a rule, know it or human life.

Cannibalism alone unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically.

É preciso partir de um profundo ateísmo para se chegar à ideia de Deus.

A]n der Wirklichkeit der Geschichte, scheitert jede Ideologie.

A thinker is a person whose part it is to symbolize time according to his vision and understanding. He has no choice; he thinks as he has to think.