Quotes About Philosophy

It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.

My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.

Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.

That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.

It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population.

Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.

To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this is both possible and necessary.

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.