Quotes About Philosophy

it is not usual, I say, for such privileged and wealthy beings to waste their time in speculations on the state of society, in philosophical reveries, intended at best to console those whom fate has disinherited from the goods of this world.

The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas—no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.

do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time? Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other. But cannot one learn philosophy? Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth; it is like the golden cloud in which the Messiah went up into heaven.

Two years! exclaimed Dantes; do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time? Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

So he went down, smiling sceptically and muttering the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

Es gibt weder Glück noch Unglück auf dieser Welt, es gibt nur eine Vergleichung eines Zustandes mit einem anderen und mehr nicht.

Dantès descended, murmuring the supreme word of human philosophy: 'Perhaps.

to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other." "But

but because she had at once classed him in that catalogue of bipeds whom Plato endeavors to withdraw from the appellation of men, and whom Diogenes designated as animals upon two legs without feathers. Unfortunately

Qu'Est-ce que la mort? Un degré de plus dans le calme et deux peut-être dans le silence.

it means resignation, madam, the first of all the virtues.

to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other." "But cannot one learn philosophy?

But tell me," said Beauchamp, "what is life? Is it not a hall in Death's anteroom?

Be philosophers, like me, gentlemen: come around the table and let us drink.

Mazarin, in his character of cardinal and prime minister, was almost an atheist, and quite a materialist.

Aprender no es saber: de aquí nacen los eruditos y los sabios: la memoria hace a los unos, y la filosofía a los otros.

that last word of human philosophy, "Perhaps!

Pensando all'ideale dimenticò il presente e con la filosofia dimenticò d'essere prigioniero.

Apprendere non vuol dire sapere; vi sono i sapienti e i savi. È la memoria che fa gli uni, è la filosofia che fa gli altri».

S? înveÅ£i nu înseamn? s? ÅŸtii. Exist? oameni care ÅŸtiu ÅŸi oameni care cunosc. Unii sunt ajutaÅ£i de memorie, ceilalÅ£i de filosofie. - Dar filosofia nu se poate înv??a? -Filosofia nu se înva??. Filosofia e suma tuturor ÅŸtiinÅ£elor pe care un geniu le pune in aplicare.

He had contemplated danger with a smile, and when wounded had exclaimed with the great philosopher, Pain, thou art not an evil.

Le roi  ! Je le croyais assez philosophe pour comprendre qu'il n'y a pas de meurtre en politique.

Now, it will scarcely require two years for me to communicate to you the stock of learning I possess. Two years! exclaimed Dantes; do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time? Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.