Quotes About Philosophy

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

But true sadness is actually the opposite, an exuberant upwelling that reminds you how fleeting and mysterious and open-ended life can be.

As Confucius says, under some circumstances murder can be forgiven; but unreasonableness never is.

You could not spend your entire span of life in thrall to the code of stuff. There was no code of stuff. Stuff was just stuff. You couldn't live by it or for it.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

The space in which one looks, in which one examines is philosophically very different from the space in which one sees

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another.

There are no objective values.

The difficulty of seeing how values could be objective is a fairly strong reason for thinking that they are not so

In Plato's theory the Forms, and in particular the Form of the Good, are eternal, extra-mental, realities. They are a very central structural element in the fabric of the world. But it is held also that just knowing them or 'seeing' them will not merely tell men what to do but will ensure that they do it, overruling any contrary inclinations.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity" Ch.2, 8

Personal Identity depends on Consciousness not on Substance

Truths are not the better nor the worse for their obviousness or difficulty, but their value is to be measured by their usefulness and tendency.

Beasts abstract not.

The most perfect character is supposed to lie between those extremes; retaining an equal ability and taste for books, company, and business; preserving in conversation that discernment and delicacy which arise from polite letters; and in business, that probity and accuracy which are the natural result of a just philosophy.