Quotes about Philosophy
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?
- Marcus Aurelius
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
- Marcus Aurelius
Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
- Milan Kundera
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
- Samuel Johnson
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
- Thomas Paine
And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.
- Thomas Paine
any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
- William Faulkner
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.
- Aristotle
The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
- Ayn Rand
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
- CS Lewis
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
- Henry David Thoreau
Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?
- Confucius