Quotes About Philosophy

Socjalizm by? pi?kny, ale niestety nie odpowiada? psychice ludzkiej i post?powaniu normalnego cz?owieka.

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?

I work because I need to have two thousand francs in my pocket every month, but I have no desire to glorify work either by enthusiasm or envy or emulation. Life is a mere waiting room in which we spend time before entering into the void. Who would think of working in a waiting room? While awaiting our turn we chat, we look at the pictures on the walls. But work? There is no point in it, if when our turn comes to go into the next room we shall no longer see anything.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.....

Man - a being in search of meaning.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colors which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another… Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

If a person shows that such things as wood, stones, and the like, being many are also one, we admit that he shows the coexistence of the one and many, but he does not show that the many are one or the one many; he is uttering not a paradox but a truism.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Socrates is a doer of evil, who corrupts the youth; and who does not believe in the gods of the state, but has other new divinities of his own. Such is the charge.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.