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Philosophy Quotes
"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away."
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"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"
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"It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems."
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"Far too many young people coming of age today have no spiritual or emotional roots. They have been deprived of values by an agnostic and contemporary culture."
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"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy."
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"Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there."
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"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide."
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"Christians are expected to carry the marks of the Lord Jesus, not adapt to the fashionable counterculture driven by marketing traps."
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"We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions."
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"Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they are unwilling to settle for little pleasures. They are greedy."
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"A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world."
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"Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist."
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"In normal everyday usage, "I" embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. The illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had deep insights not only into the reality of space an time, but also into human nature, referred to as "an optical illusion of consciousness."
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"The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?"
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"Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism."
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"A new novel awaits my arrival, prepares for my careful inspection. Yet a novel is always a long dream that lives in me for years before I know where to go to hunt it out."
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"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."
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"Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco."
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"The work of the philosophical policeman," replied the man in blue, "is at once bolder and more subtle than that of the ordinary detective. The ordinary detective goes to pot-houses to arrest thieves; we go to artistic tea-parties to detect pessimists. The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that a crime will be committed. We have to trace the origin of those dreadful thoughts that drive men on at last to intellectual fanaticism and intellectual crime. We were only just in time to prevent the assassination at Hartlepool, and that was entirely due to the fact that our Mr. Wilks (a smart young fellow) thoroughly understood a triolet."
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"The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains."
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"Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins."
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"[It] is well and good when our convictions are based upon the “Thou shalts” and the “Thou shalt nots” of Scripture rather than our own ideas."
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"Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."
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"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."
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"What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle."
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"The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence."
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"The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class."
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"What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection."
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"Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them."
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"Wisely the Hebrews admit no Present tense in their language;While we are speaking the word, it is is already the Past."
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"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."
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"You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."
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"We learn and experience ourselves only through suffering, everything else is humbug."
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"Thou shalt not search with desire; because the real treasures, they, will remain forever hidden from you."
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"Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors."
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"You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway."
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"To believe a thing is not to make it true."
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"All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten."
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"It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery, we build where monsters used to hide themselves."
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"Can a farmer plants his seeds and then demand the crops to grow before harvest?"
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"The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it."
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"Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that you do not create idols to worship."
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"Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?"
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"I believe and therefore I am."
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"Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is."
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"The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either."
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"Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand."
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"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."
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"What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone."
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