Quotes About Philosophy

Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.

For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.

The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself.

They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.

Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down?

As Kant says, the contribution of any common laborer would be greater than that of the greatest philosopher unless the philosopher makes some contribution to establishing the rights of humanity.

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.

A fellow has to believe in something, Jay-such as the rottenness of humanity.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

I think pimp, therefore i am.

I stopped and I thought, 'What would Jesus do?' So I didn't exist.

Who do you think was smarter, Jesus or Buddha? I mean, just in terms of not letting themselves get crucified.