Quotes about Philosophy
Men and times change-but principles-never.
- Grover Cleveland
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions
- Aristotle
I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Man - a figment of God's imagination.
- Mark Twain
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
- Herman Melville
If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
- John Tillotson
I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
- DH Lawrence
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
- Albert Camus
I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one
- Albert Camus
What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.
- Albert Einstein
The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.
- Arthur Schopenhauer