Quotes About Philosophy

I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.

Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged....

If one is not a human being, what is one?

We pursued the muses, instead of the mirrors.

sometimes crazy uncles—from Samuel Johnson to G. K. Chesterton.

The madness of faith is a very different thing from the madness of Enlightenment Reason.

The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another...

When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and so selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble?

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.

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Two different sets of philosophers have attempted to teach us this hardest of all the lessons of morality. One set have laboured to increase our sensibility to the interests of others; another, to diminish that to our own. The first would have us feel for others as we naturally feel for ourselves. The second would have us feel for ourselves, as we naturally feel for others.

THE WEALTH OF NATIONS is one of the most important and influential books ever written. It

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You're a glass-half-empty kind of guy, sir, aren't you? I don't even acknowledge the existence of the glass, son.

Are you aware of the Japanese concept of mono no aware, the bitter sweetness of things?" "I'm afraid not." "The Japanese sages say the best way to appreciate beauty is to focus on its transient, fragile and fleeting nature.

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She remembers Voltaire's warning about the perfect being the enemy of the good.

If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren't reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help?

If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren't reasons behind the terrible things that go on.

We're not gods; why then expect to enjoy a lifetime of unbroken happiness?

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Comparisons have been made with Stirner, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Camus, to name only a few.3 He won tributes from Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn, who acknowledged his formative influence on their work in both content and style.