Philosophical Quotes

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

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

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

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

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

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

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

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

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

You cannot step twice into the same river.

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

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.

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

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

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.

Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

To think what you want to think is to think truth, regardless of appearances.

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.

Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.