Quotes About Philosophy

Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.

Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories.

The natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is. and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

There's only one lesson to be learned from life anyway.... That there's no lesson to be learned from life.

Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remarks the futility of themselves.

There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe--why, intelligence never built a steam engine! Circumstances built a steam engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.

Há gente que diz que a inteligência deve ter criado o universo; ora, a inteligência jamais construiu um motor a vapor! A inteligência não passa de uma pequena régua que usamos para medir as realizações infindáveis das circunstâncias.

compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired

I don't believe there's any one alive who can contemplate themselves as an impermanent institution, as a luxury or an unnecessary evil. Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin—but they don't, even you and I….

For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy.

Like so many men he had found that he had only one or two idea--that his little collection of pamphlets now in its fiftieth German edition contained the germ of all he would ever think or know.

And like most intellectuals who don't find faith convenient," he continued coldly, "like Napoleon and Oscar Wilde and the rest of your type, you'll yell loudly for a priest on your death-bed.

A boldogság-jegyezte meg egyszer Maury Noble- nem több, mint egy különösen elviselhetetlen nyomorúság megszünését követÅ' egy óra.

stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour.

Foarte puÈ›ini dintre cei care subliniaz? inutilitatea vieÈ›ii observ? inutilitatea lor înÈ™ile. Probabil cred c?, proclamând inutilitatea vieÈ›ii, reuÈ™esc s?-È™i salveze propia valoare de la ruin? - dar nu reulÈ™esc.

The "pure spirit" is a piece of pure stupidity: take away the nervous system and the senses, the so-called "mortal shell," and the rest is miscalculation—that is all!...

There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

But as Michael Sandel, a Harvard philosopher, explained in his 2012 book, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, we have moved from accepting a market economy to creating a market society, one in which everything is seen through the prism of price.

The world of dew is, yes, a world of dew, but even so

There is no such thing as was-only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.

Cuànto nos hemos esmerado para conservar intacta nuestra ignorancia, para lanzarnos en brazos de una libertad, de una despreocupaciòn, de una imprudencia, de un entusiasmo y de una alegrìa de vivir casi inconcebibles, para gozar de la vida!

Erst wenn man einen Abschluss in Philosophie, einen in Soziologie und einen in Wirtschaft hat, merkt man, dass man eigentlich nur was von Elektrizität und vom Klempnern verstehen muss, um in der Welt rumzukommen.

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.