Quotes About Philosophy

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.

Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

To endeavor all one's days to fortify one's mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armor that one has nothing left to defend.

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

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

Much learning does not teach sense.

I have not asked for life. But I try to accept whatever life brings without surprise. And I shall depart again without having questioned anyone about my strange stay here on earth.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness-- being happy-- is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way.