Philosophical Quotes

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.

Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution.

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

You cannot step twice into the same river.

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.

For greed, all nature is too little.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.