Quotes About Philosophy

I think that tastes, odors, colors, and so on . . . reside in consciousness. Hence if the living creature were removed, all these qualities would be wiped away and annihilated.

The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us.

My dear Kepler, I wish that we might laugh at the stupidity of the human herd. What do you have to say about the principal philosophers of this academy who are filled with the stubbornness of an asp and do not want to look at either the planets, the moon or the telescope, even though I have freely and deliberately offered them the opportunity a thousand times? Truly, just as the asp stops its ears, so do these philosophers shut their eyes to the light of truth.

Dites-nous comment on va au ciel, et laissez-nous vous dire comment va le ciel.

Philosophy is written in this all-encompassing book that is constantly open to our eyes, that is the universe; but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to understand the language and knows the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures; without these it is humanly impossible to understand a word of it, and one wanders in a dark labyrinth.

I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God's help.

But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy, during the same winter, and that the money raised by them was also applied towards paying for the Orrery.

My philosophy, in a nutshell, is to wipe out the greatest amount of risk with the least amount of money.

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from Aeschylus to Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman - have thought it wise to understand oneself and one's behavior.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Earl Sweatshirt is very wise.

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?