Quotes About Philosophy

Cato was always the perfect Stoic, as long as nothing went wrong.

Excellent. I approve of statesmen who write philosophy. It means they have given up all hope of power.

that virtue is sufficient for happiness, that nothing except virtue is good, and that the emotions are not to be trusted—

Few subjects make more tedious reading than happiness.

History does not record anywhere a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help.

The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.

The Way of the Leaf was a fine belief, like a dream of peace, but like the dream it could not last where there was violence. He did not know of a place without that. A dream for some other man, some other time. Some other Age perhaps.

The Creator made women to please the eye and trouble the mind.

For anything with a name(and zero had so many) surely existed......Yet how could what doesn't exist, exist?

Will it be the idea of absence of any number-or the idea of a number for such absence? Is it to be the mark of the empty, or the empty mark?

Beyond it is the incalculable. In other words, numbers cannot exceed the number of things there are: so that for the teller and the audience of this tale, numbers still are attached to objects.

There were more preposterous vicissitudes in life than a single philosophy could conjure.

The philosophy of a conglomerate is to buy as far and as wide as possible and diversify its markets. It both uses and refutes the Malthusian

And what is written well and what is written badly...need we ask Lysias or any other poet or orator who ever wrote or will write either a political or other work, in meter or out of meter, poet or prose writer, to teach us this? What is good, PhÊdrus, and what is not good...need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

Zen is the spirit of the valley, not the mountaintop. The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

The pencil is mightier than the pen.

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on good rather than on time....

To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outwards from there. Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

If Quality were dropped, only rationality would remain unchanged.