Quotes About Philosophy

Trpljenje patnikâ nije ništa veliko ni uzvišeno; u svome korijenu ono je sve drugo samo ne solidarno trpljenje, ono nije naprosto znak ljubavi, nego je daleko više naznaka za to da se više ne može ljubiti.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can accept or reject as we wish, it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.

We do not act because we know, but we know because we are destined for action; practical reason is the root of all reason.

What is the short meaning of the long speech?

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

If sensibility and understanding as the two branches of human knowledge spring from one common root, to what end such a violent, unauthorized and willful separation of that which nature has joined together! Will not both branches wither away and die through a dichotomy and division of their common root?

Faith is not the work of reason, and therefore cannot succumb to its attack, because faith arises just as little from reason as tasting and seeing do.

Not only is the whole faculty of thought dependent on language, but language is also the center of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

A reader who seeks after truth might become a hypochondriac out of dread.

The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.

La clase de filosofía que se elige depende de la clase de hombre que se es.

It is his incurable illness to regard the accidental as necessary.

Mit einem Worte: durch die Wissenschaftslehre kommt der Geist des Menschen zu sich selbst, und ruht von nun an auf sich selbst, ohne fremde Hülfe, und wird seiner selbst durchaus mächtig, wie der Tänzer seiner Füße, oder der Fechter seiner Hände.

Nur mit Johannes kann der Philosoph zusammenkommen, denn dieser allein hat Achtung für die Vernunft, und beruft sich auf den Beweis, den der Philosoph allein gelten lässt: den inneren.

Eastern philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti,26 who explained: "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.

Rufus tells his patients when they come to him feeling deeply depressed or anxious: You're not crazy to feel so distressed. You're not broken. You're not defective. He sometimes quotes the Eastern philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti,26 who explained: "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

How can I not be? How can you not be? We are after all. –– Not be! What does that mean? It is only a word, a mere sound, which stirs nothing in me.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.