Quotes About Philosophy

jedes einzelne war hässlich, und alles zusammen war Glück.

Moral war für ihn [..] das unendliche Ganze der Möglichkeiten zu leben.

E]in blasser, sozusagen grammatikalischer Schatten von Egoismus bleibt auf allem Tun haften, solange es keine Prädikate ohne Subjekte gebe.

D]iese skeptische Gegenwart glaubt weder an Gott noch an die Humanität, weder an Kronen noch Sittlichkeit - oder sie glaubt an alles zusammen, was auf das gleiche hinauskommt.

Chaque vérité éternelle existe en double, en multiples exemplaires.

Moral war für ihn weder Botmäßigkeit, noch Gedankenweisheit, sondern das unendliche Ganze der Möglichkeiten zu leben.

We don't have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul.

Progress would be wonderful — if only it would stop.

The body of reality is always richer than the mere outline sketch we call principles.

A]lles ist moralisch, aber die Moral selbst ist nicht moralisch!

Qué endeble es la concepción del mundo con que la gente se contenta...

Whoever cannot say "Yes" to life should at least utter the "No" of the saint.

Ein Mann, der die Wahrheit will, wird Gelehrter; ein Mann, der seine Subjektivität spielen lassen will, wird vielleicht Schriftsteller; was aber soll ein Mann tun, der etwas will, das dazwischen liegt?

Do you ever think about the rocks? he said. How does that go? Maybe they are alive and their hearts beat once every thousand years and they only need to take a breath every five hundred.

The true liberal-arts ideal rejects the reduction of reason to the status of passion's ingenious servant. It is an ideal rooted in the conviction that there are human goods, and a common good, in light of which we have reasons to constrain, to limit, to regulate, and even to alter our desires.

How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.

What you don't know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist. I was a brass-bound Idealist in those days. If you are an Idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

Were we happy tonight because we were happy or because once, a long time back, we had been happy? Was our happiness tonight like the light of the moon, which does not come from the moon, for the moon is cold and has no light of its own, but is reflected light from far away?

If you are an Idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway

What you don't know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist. I was

I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles

That's the way it is. The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

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