Quotes about Philosophy

You are whatever your faith is.

Siddhartha looked down at his arm and brushed away the film of dried dung that had settled on it. More dust flew up into the sunlight. I am just dust, he thought.

If the elementary building blocks of matter and energy are conceptual, then the universe itself is bubbling up from a set of ideas or forms, too.

A prominent rabbi sent Einstein an exasperated telegram: "Do you believe in God? Stop. Answer paid. Fifty words." Einstein replied, "I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.