Quotes About Philosophy

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

To the question whether I would admit that the cause of the decision of the atom has something in common with the cause of the decision of the brain, I would simply answer that there is no cause. In the case of the brain I have a deeper insight into the decision; this insight exhibits it as volition, i.e. something outside causality.

We take as building material relations and relata. The relations unite the relata; the relata are the meeting-points of the relations. The one is unthinkable apart from the other. I do not think that a more general starting-point of structure could be conceived.

The more perfect the instrument as a measurer of time, the more completely does it conceal time's arrow.

In a word, to deny the sovereignty of God is to enter upon a path which, if followed to its logical terminus, is to arrive at blank atheism.

Os dois companheiros constataram filosoficamente que cada dia da vida das pessoas era, sem excepção, o primeiro dia do resto das suas vidas, embora todos estivessem geralmente demasiado atarefados para pensar nisso.

Døden er det aller viktigste her i livet, og heller ikke den er særlig viktig (Folkelig visdomsord)

Les deux camarades constatèrent en philosophes que chaque jour était sans exception le premier du temps qui restait à vivre à chacun même si l'on était en général trop occupé pour y penser

Samobójcy doszli wspólnie do wniosku, ?e chocia? ?mier? jest w ?yciu najwa?niejsz? spraw?, to w ko?cu nie jest ona a? tak bardzo wa?na.

Bien mirado, el mundo ha dejado de pensar en la muerte. Creer que no vamos a morir nos hace débiles, y peores.

Los filósofos griegos tenían razón al decir que la guerra era la madre de todas las cosas.

Sometimes," he said at last, as if it were an enormous effort to formulate his thoughts, "I wonder if chess is something man invented or if he merely discovered it. It's as if it were something that has always been there, since the beginning of the universe. Like whole numbers.

Dejad leer y dejad danzar, pedía Voltaire.

No me digan que no es vergonzoso para la especie humana haber medido la distancia de la Tierra al Sol, haber pesado todos los planetas cercanos, y no haber descubierto las leyes fecundas que hacen la felicidad de los pueblos.

Ésas son cosas de la suerte —suspiró filosófico Garza—. Las balas las disparan los hombres y las reparte Dios.

El hombre salió de un puñado de barro y agua. ¿Por qué una mujer no habría de estar hecha de rocío, vapores terrestres y rayos de luz, de los condensados residuos de un arco iris? ¿Dónde reside lo posible...? ¿Dónde lo imposible?