Quotes About Philosophy

Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

That so few understand me is why I am treasured.

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.

Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.

It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.

The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

Knowledge is our ultimate good.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.