Quotes About Philosophy

there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory, the second philosophy.

Hayat, filozofun gülerek çektiÄŸi ve çeÅŸitli ac?lardan meydana gelen bir tesbihe benzer. Siz de benim gibi filozof olun biraz, gelin masaya içelim ÅŸimdi; hiçbir ÅŸey hayat? bir bardak ÅŸarab?n ard?ndan gözüktüÄŸü kadar toz pembe gösteremez.

You are without a doubt a remarkable man,' Danglars said. 'And whatever philosophers say, it's marvellous to be rich.

La vita è un rosario di piccole miserie che il filosofo sgrana sorridendo.

A înv??a nu înseamn? a È™ti. Exist? È™tiutori È™i exist? savanÈ›i: pe unii îi face memoria, pe alÈ›ii filozofia.

La vie est un chapelet de petites misères que le philosophe égrène en riant.

No hay ventura ni desgracia en el mundo, sino la comparación de un estado con otro.

Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

I think that in no country in the civilized world is less attention paid to philosophy than in the United States.

In no country in the civilized world is less attention paid to philosophy than in the United States.

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

Any proposition containing the word is creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.

It was believed that all creation came from thought, language, and mathematics.

I hope you're happy, she said to Mrs. James. Happiness is for fools. Helena James shrugged. So I wish that for you.

How can we understand life? It's impossible.

How strange it is to be anything at all.

Like the youthful Nietzsche, he was assailed by all kinds of illnesses, and he was virtually unable to concentrate.

It's just life. You can't beat life.

What good is it if you read Plato and never clean your toilet? asked my mother, reverting to the values of Jubilee.

His philosophy of life had changed as he got older—he believed now in marriage, constancy, and no birth control.

It seems so much the truth it is the truth; it's what I believe.