Quotes About Philosophy

Where's the romance in life? Tell somebody your epitaph and what do you get? Jokes.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry.

Search the heads of the greatest rivers in the world, you shall find them but bubbles of water.

The question is what is the question?

If the old saying is true, that what one generation learns in school is the philosophy of the next, then the philosophy of the next generation will be totalitarianism.

He is useless in that he would expend his energies upon making judgments rather than upon gaining knowledge, for the reason that judgment is easy and knowledge is difficult. He is contemptible in that his judgments reflect a vision of himself which in his ignorance and pride he would impose upon the world.

The strongest of us are but the puniest weaklings, are but tinkling cymbals and sounding brass, before the eternal mystery.

Den intellektuelle borde inte bli tvingad att förstöra det som han ägnat sitt liv åt att bygga upp.

And it might be amusing to pass through the world once more before I return to the cloistered and slow extinction that awaits us all.

Perhaps you were right after all, my dear Nicolaus; perhaps there is but one god. But if that is true, you have misnamed him. He is Accident, and his priest is man, and that priest's only victim must be at last himself, his poor divided self.

And it seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would expend his energies upon making judgments rather than upon gaining knowledge, for the reason that judgment is easy and knowledge is difficult.

If I were asked to answer, in one sentence, the question 'What was Wittgenstein's biggest contribution to philosophy', I should answer 'His asking of the question "Can one play chess without the Queen?

It seemed to me an odd view to take - rather as if one should protest that one didn't LIKE the idea of dying or being born. I preferred the notion of finding out first how it would be, and then doing what one could about the parts of it one disliked most.

When people live their lives by their beliefs objective reality is almost irrelevant. 'That's

Como la mente no tiene masa, no utiliza tiempo en desplazarse.

Just that mere existence is not enough. One exists by barter. One lives by giving – and taking.

And isn't there something a little sad about youth and beauty in any circumstances?

don't know whether that would be the zenith or nadir of decadence

Sospecho que alguna vez oyó decir a alguien que la verdad nunca es simple y de ello dedujo que todo aquello que no es simple tiene que ser vedad a la fuerza.

To symbolize is to express time consciousness, for the symbol embodies the structure of time

it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...