Quotes About Philosophy

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man

The good befriend themselves.

Wise words; but O, when wisdom brings no profit, To be wise is to suffer.

Of happiness the chiefest part IS a wise heart

Never to have been born is best. Everyone knows that, and a close second, once you have appeared in this life, is a quick return, as soon as you can, to where you came from.

Tis better not to be than to vilely live. Greedy of gain is every barbarous tribe.

What will come will come. Even if I shroud it all in silence.

they] reason'd high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixt Fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. (Paradise Lost 2.658

To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.

Say, can the mind be noble, where the stream Of gratitude is withered from the spring?

The Greeks, who gave us history, philosophy and political science, never managed to solve the problems posed by their political disunity;

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To never have been born would be the greatests boon of all !

So, when I am nothing—then am I a man?

If thou dost count a virtue stubbornness, Unschooled by reason, thou art much astray.

and there is no sword of thought to save us

É uma vergonha para um homem almejar uma longa vida, se não conseguir libertar-se dos seus males.

Tell me, why do you love misery so much?

Does it hurt in your ears, sir, or in your soul?

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.

If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?

Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.