Quotes About Philosophy

Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. In its experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve. Man is a stream whose source is hidden.

FOR EVERY STOIC WAS A STOIC BUT WHERE IN CHRISTENDOM IS THE CHRISTIAN?

Let the Stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

Apa yang kita fikir ibarat bunga,bahasa ibarat putik,manakala tindakan adalah buahnya.

The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature.

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable.

I become the transparent eyeball...

thought can never ripen into truth.

In inquiries respecting the laws of the world and the frame of things, the highest reason is always the truest.

Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend to what addresses the senses.

Our thinking is a pious reception.

Man is a god in ruins.

For every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

It is not length of life, but depth of life

shallow men believe in luck, strong men believe in cause and effect

Nature is transcendental, exists primarily, necessarily, ever works and advances, yet takes no thought for the morrow.

evergreen philosophy of Idealism, springing up on American soil.

their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Transcendentalists believe that our minds are always open to a new inflowing of light and power from the Source. This is called inspiration.

Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.