Quotes About Philosophy

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Good comedians are great philosophers.

Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

Have you ever wondered why there are so many Gods and so many religions? It is because in the Land of the Gods, there is not a single hand to guide the Gods on a proper path.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.

I do not think that we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.