Quotes About Philosophy

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Eat to live, and not live to eat.

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

He that lives upon hope will die farting.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

What Comfort can the Vortices of Descartes give to a Man who has Whirlwinds in his bowels!

Imitate Jesus and Socrates

some books against Deism fell into my hands ... it happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quote to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.

O vitae Philosophia dux! O virtutum indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum! Unus dies, bene et ex praeceptis tuis actus, peccanti immortalitati est anteponendus. translation (non-literal): O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher of virtues and expeller of vices! Just a single day lived well and according to your lessons is to be preferred to an eternity of errors. — Cicero, As quoted in Ben Franklin's Autobiography

I am in the prime of senility.

Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

I do not find that I grow any older. Being arrived at seventy, and considering that by traveling further in the same road I should probably be led to the grave, I stopped short, turned about, and walked back again; which having done these four years, you may now call me sixty-six. Advise those old friends of ours to follow my example; keep up your spirits, and that will keep up your bodies.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

Money has never made man happy,nor will it,there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine öffentliche Freiheit.

There are in life real evils enough and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones.

one thing I know that is I know NOTHING

I began to suspect that this doctrine, tho' it might be true, was not very useful.

That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning,

He that best understands the world, least likes it.