Quotes About Philosophy

Love of wisdom [philosophy] the guide of life.

In 1913, Wittgenstein decided to live for two years in Norway on his own to meditate and work on logic. Russell tried to dissuade him.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?

As for the use of the bomb, she would say, "It was war and we had to expect it." And then she would add, "Shikata ga nai," a Japanese expression as common as, and corresponding to, the Russian word "nichevo": "It can't be helped. Oh, well. Too bad." Dr. Fujii said approximately the same thing about the use of the bomb to Father Kleinsorge one evening, in German: "Da ist nichts zu machen. There's nothing to be done about it.

Let the world slide, let the world go;A fig for care, and a fig for woe!If I can't pay, why I can owe,And death makes equal the high and low.

Imprecision is, on the whole, highly prized. Definition and categorization are, by contrast, suspect. For

G. K. Chesterton said that when a man stops believing in God he doesn't then believe in nothing: he believes in anything.

Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.

All truth is simple, but all that's simple is not truth"

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

La vida no es más que eso, indicó el viejo analista meneando la cabeza. Un juego tras otro . Y la muerte es el mayor juego de todos.

Estar loco te proporciona una visión interesante de la vida

Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: we know her woof, her texture; she is given in the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, and gnome mine unweave a rainbow.

Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine—things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

I have an habitual feeling of my real life having passed, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - Ode to a Grecian Urn

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

At once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously—I mean Negative Capability, that is, when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.

Call the world if you Please "The vale of Soul-making."

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not