Quotes About Philosophy

With too much quickness ever to be taught, with too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all t hat joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

The proper study of Mankind is Man

So Man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown. Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal, 'This but a part we see, and not a whole.

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

What if philosophy is the problem, not the solution? What if the best response to philosophy is to cease doing it?

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

What speaks to the soul, escapes our measurements.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

It is far more difficult to observe correctly than most men imagine; to behold is not necessarily to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that habits of exact observation are not cultivated in our schools; to this deficiency may be traced much of the fallacious reasoning, the false philosophy which prevails.

The supreme good—to examine everything—a life which was not devoted to such research would not be worth living. Happiness would thus consist in their never-ending quest. PLATO

But later in high school she became both bored and confused. Bored at the trivia she was taught and confused by the inconsistencies of the teachers who taught it. She wanted to learn how to deal with reality and evaluate it objectively, how to think. She was taught that language has no meaning, poetry needs no structure, and philosophy is fine in theory but useless in practice.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

Trebuie s? ai un spirit pesimist; cel optimist e lamentabil, grotesc ?i stupid. "Gânde?te pozitiv!" Cum adic?, s? gândesc în mod deliberat fals, numai ca s? am o stare pozitiv?, care s? plac? cui ?i cui s? fac? un bine? Trebuie s? fii apt s? prive?ti realitatea exact a?a cum e, frumoas? sau pocit?.

Every man in the world is either a Realist or a Nominalist. Give yourself a test: if someone called you a gigger or a fell-picker, and you knew it wasn't true, would you hit him or smile? That's how easy it is to tell.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

El tiempo físico nos es extraño, mientras el tiempo interior es nosotros mismos.

Life in general has no meaning. Whatever meaning life has must be assigned to it by the individual.

Materialism is the metaphysics of those who refuse to be metaphysicians.

Le mal existe, mais pas sans le bien, comme l'ombre existe, mais pas sans la lumière. Evil exists, but not without the good, as the shadow exists, but not without the light. (III, 3)

Le mal existe, mais pas sans le bien, comme l'ombre existe, mais pas sans la lumière. (III, 3) Evil exists, but not without the good, as the shadow exists, but not without the light.

?tiin?ele sunt un bun de pre? dragii mei, dar livezile, copacii ??tia, ne-nva?? sus ?i tare cea mai frumoas? dintre toate ?tiin?ele: uitarea a ceea ce ?tim.

Hast thou found out, Voltaire, that it is bliss to die, And does thy hideous smile over thy bleached bones fly?