Quotes About Philosophy

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Dear friend, all theory is gray,And green the golden tree of life.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

I've studied now Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine,— And even, alas! Theology,— From end to end, with labor keen; And here, poor fool! with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before:

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us.

Well, that's Philosophy I've read, And Law and Medicine, and I fear Theology, too, from A to Z; Hard studies all, that have cost me dear. And so I sit, poor silly man No wiser now than when I began.

He calls it reason, using it To be more beast than ever beast was yet.

Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie und grün des Lebens goldner Baum

Content and peace of mind are valuable things: I could wish, my dear friend, that these precious jewels were less transitory.

En esta vida son pocos los momentos que se resuelven con un sí o con un no.

God of heaven! and is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason, or after he has lost it?

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored.

Life is not light, but refracted colour.

He who possesses science and art also has religion; but he who possesses neither of those two, let him have religion!

Death is what makes life fun.

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

I enjoy life. I think I'll enjoy death even more. Life is too confusing.

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?