Quotes about Philosophy
Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
- Elbert Hubbard
If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.
- GK Chesterton
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.
- Albert Camus
There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.
- CS Lewis
The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.
- Confucius
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
- Aristotle
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.
- Aristotle
If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.
- Epictetus
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
- Hippocrates
Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?
- Khalil Gibran