Quotes About Philosophy

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

This world we live in is but thickened light.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

A man may love a paradox without either losing his wit or his honesty.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.

We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.

We are prisoners of ideas.

What is the hardest thing in the world To think.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

La greguería es el género que se debe escribir en los bancos públicos, en los pretiles de los puentes, en las mesas de los cafés, al ir solos en los coches lentos que van acompañando a los entierros, en las mesas de las cocinas, en los fogones, etc.

Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.

The Self is the only Reality. (p. 38)

The intricate maze of philosophy of the various schools is said to clarify matters and to reveal the Truth, but in fact it creates confusion where none need exist. To understand anything there must be the Self. The Self is obvious, so why not remain as the Self? What need to explain the non-self?