Philosophical Quotes

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Whenever you're pissed off, just remember that it's better than being pissed on.

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

Thrift is of great revenue.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

Before all else, be armed.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall.

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

In the Bible, there is no mention of the Trinity. . . . We get to know God, not through our proud philosophical concepts, but through Christ.

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Time takes all and gives all

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...

Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

Screwed-up people settle fights through violence. Screwed-up people start wars that could kill millions. Normal people settle fights through cookies, cakes, and pies. Normal people are fat.

true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible - only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.