Quotes About Philosophy

We should have with each person the relationship of one conception of the universe to another conception of the universe, and not to a part of the universe.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

He had learned how to assemble Jewish texts, Greek philosophy, and Middle-Western evangelistic anecdotes into a sermon. And he had learned that poverty was blessed, but that bankers make the best deacons.

And when Elmer was about to slip out to the kitchen with her to make lemonade, Benham held him by demanding, 'What do you think of John Wesley's doctrine of perfection?' 'Oh, it's absolutely sound and proven,' admitted Elmer, wondering what the devil Mr. Wesley's doctrine of perfection might be.

his secretary-press-agent-private-philosopher, Lee Sarason, yielded nothing to others'.

He called himself an "agnostic" instead of an "atheist" only because he detested the street-bawling, tract-peddling evangelicism of the professional atheists.

he saw no one clear path to Truth but a thousand paths to a thousand truths far-off and doubtful.

Except, perhaps, that he was an atheist in theology, he was a strict orthodox Christian.

They had never had much time in Zenith for a serious attention to quarreling and being domestically vulgar. All day he had been at the office; most evenings they had seen other people; on Sunday there had been golf and relatives. They had time a-plenty now, equally for quarreling and for intimate and adventurous happiness together. One day they wrangled--and endlessly, because they were not quarreling over any one thing in particular but over the differences in their philosophies of life;

It was coming to him that perhaps all life as he knew it and vigorously practised it was futile; that heaven as portrayed by the Reverend Dr. John Jennison Drew was neither probable nor very interesting; that he hadn't much pleasure out of making money; that it was of doubtful worth to rear children merely that they might rear children who would rear children. What was it all about? What did he want?

I've had ups in my life, and I've had downs, but I've learned not to cry over spilled milk.

This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.

CORO Aver senno è di molto il primo fondamento di una vita felice.»

Non dire felice uomo mortale, prima che abbia varcato il termine della vita senza aver patito dolore

Death is a mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.

Call no man happy until he is dead.

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It was in the forest. No one saw it or heard it. So did it actually happen?

I'm not quite sure if he's talking to me or to himself, but every word he says feels like a drop of Wise Potion. I want to hear more. I want him to tell me all the answers to life.

Not to be born at all Is best, far best that can befall, Next best, when born, with least delay To trace the backward way. For when youth passes with its giddy train, Troubles on troubles follow, toils on toils, Pain, pain forever pain; And none escapes life's coils. Envy, sedition, strife, Carnage and war, make up the tale of life.

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist

For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, is full of misery

Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.