Quotes about Philosophy

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..

I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened- Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many.