Quotes About Philosophy

This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word; I therefore extracted from philosophers principles of science; from historians remarkable facts; from chymists complete processes; from divines striking exhortations; and from poets beautiful descriptions.

A jest breaks no bones.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.

It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

But strictly speaking, human rights do not necessarily call for a modicum of distributive equality. And a concern for human rights, including economic and social rights, has risen as moral commitments to distributive equality fell.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

Truth is what's important in the world. But is what's important always the truth?

a little town on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees there is only one barber. This barber shaves all the men in the town who do not shave themselves. Does the barber shave himself or not?

Well, thinking about what's not supposed to require thinking, that is philosophy, no?

Tell me this. Are you all that happy? Be honest now." ..."I think... there's something wrong with your question, you know? I spend a lot of time happy; Inspend a lot of time unhappy; I spend a lot of time just bored. Maybe if I worked real hard at it, I could avoid some of the happiness, but I doubt it. The other two I know I'm stuck with...

Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.

Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.