Quotes about Philosophy

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Sin makes us fools. We are easily deceived, attracted to hollow and deceptive philosophy, and enticed by arguments that lead us away from Christ. Sin blinds us to our sin!

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

Lord Henry had not yet come in. He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

Mere words.. Was there anything so real as words?

The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is right.

Lord Henry had not come in yet. He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

I await the revises, and promise you not to 'make my quietus with a bare bodkin' till I have returned them. After that, I think of retiring. But first I would like to dine with you here. To leave life as one leaves a feast is not merely philosophy but romance.

But, to the philosopher, my dear Gerald, women represent the triumph of matter over mind - just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.