Philosophical Quotes

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.

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

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.

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'.

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

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

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

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

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway.

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche.

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

No problem is so big and difficult that it can't be blamed on somebody else.

In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.