Quotes About Philosophy

He that knew all that ever Learning writ, Knew only this -- that he knew nothing yet.

Nor have I met any man in my life, arguing for what should be among men, but took for granted as he argued that the doctrine he consciously or unconsciously accepted was or should be a similar foundation for all mankind. Hence battle.

The object of a religion or a philosophy is not to make men wealthy or powerful, but to make them, in the last issue, happy: that is, to fulfil their being.

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.

I think you're going to find Marcus Aurelius particularly useful.' 'For what?' I asked. Nightingale hesitated. 'Quoting, mainly,' he said. 'And thus maintaining an air of erudition and authority.

I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?

When I'm considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?

So Newton, like all good seventeenth-century intellectuals, wrote in Latin because that was the international language of science, philosophy and, I found out later, upmarket pornography.

Screw humanity. I don't give the whole stinking bunch of us more than a couple of generations and good riddance. The universe is better off without us.

Riches are in fortune A greater good than wisdom is in nature.

they did not know what suffering was, that if they suffered from anything it was precisely this lack of suffering

the abyss of non-belief, the vacuum, cannot be filled with stuff

If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.

clerihew: Fuchs Looks Like an ascetic Theoretic

Patra was trying to read Hegel's Science of Logic. This is something no one should ever feel obliged to do.

A tolerable hell is better than an impossible heaven.

That's good. Life is full of riddles that only the dead can answer," was Dad's reply.

Nobody bought into that philosophy more than WaMu

Philosophically, I did not view myself as either strongly pro- or anti-regulation.

I still considered myself a conservative.

Without a clear moral vision, we devolve into moral relativism, and from there, into oblivion.

In place of moral absolutes, they promote moral relativism and sometimes even question the very existence of truth and reality. To them truth and reality are what we subjectively perceive them to be.