Quotes About Philosophy

You are you. Now, isn't that unpleasant?

All beliefs are bald ideas.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

All at once, I couldn't figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

Time is the substance of which we are made

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

All say, 'how hard it is that we have to die' -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.

It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

Money is really just an idea.

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus

You're not what you eat; you're what you believe about what you eat.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

Philosophy has forgotten about children

The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.

Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because we are in the mood. Life is its own raison d'etre.