Quotes About Philosophy

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem...

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few

Possessions, outward success, publicity, LUXURY -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.

Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union of the two will preserve an independent reality

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.