Quotes About Philosophy

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

We live by what we believe not but what we see.

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.

Money is just an idea.

There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.

It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

You are what you think about.

Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

Happiness is the highest good

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.