Quotes about Philosophy
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
- John Keats
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.
- Marcus Aurelius
Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.
- Bill Wilson
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
- Confucius
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.
- Henry David Thoreau
And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
- Albert Camus
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
- Aristotle
To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.
- Albert Einstein
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
- Epicurus
Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
- William Saroyan