Philosophical Quotes

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

It is the distance between us that creates language.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.

Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza.

All things deteriorate in time.

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.

People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

He enters the port with a full sail.

... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

What a piece of work is a man

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.