Philosophical Quotes

[christine]

Here's some which I enjoyed. I don't necessarily agree with all of them. My suggestion is either posting some of your favorite quotes or discussing your opinion on some of them are? yes, maybe? Ha!

"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel- a solution of why Democritus lauged and Heraclitus wept" -Horace Walpole

"Everything is flux" - Heraclitus

"Each man believes only his experience" -Empedocles

"WHAT IS JUSTICE?" -Socrates <3

"Everything is becoming, nothing is." -PLATO

"WHAT IS BEING?"-Aristotle <3

"Men are good in one way, but bad in many" -Aristotle

"POETRY IS MORE PHILOSOPHICAL AND MORE WORTHY OF SERIOUS ATTENTION THAN HISTORY" -Aristotle <3333

"By scepticism... We arive first at suspension of judgement, and second at freedom from disturbance" - Sextus Empiricus

"DEATH IS NOTHING TO US" -Epicurus

"Lord make me chaste, but not yet" -St. Augustine

"A person is an individual substance of a rational nature" -Boethius

"The Soul is known by its acts" -Thomas Aquinas <3

"Sin consists not in desiring a woman, but in consent to the desire" -Peter Abelard

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" -Isaac Newton

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth mens' minds about to religion" -Sir Francis Bacon (I find this to be so true)

"Words are wise men's counters... but they are the money of fools" -Thomas Hobbes

"I think therefore I am" -Rene Descartes

"Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced he is well supplied with it" -Descarte

"The true aim of government is liberty" -Spinoza

"Men are decieved if they think themselves free" -Spinoza

"Why is there something rather than nothing" -Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

"It is one thing to show a man he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth" -John Locke

"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them" -HUME

"Custom, then, is the great guide of human life" -HUME

"The word freedom has no meaning" -Denis Diderot

"Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains" -Rousseau

"It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy exists" -KANT <3

"Man is a wolf to man" -Schopenhauer

"Happy is he who has overcome his ego...who has attained peace...who has found the truth." -Buddha

"History repeats itself- first as tragedy, the second time as farce" -Karl Marx

"There are no facts, only interpretations" -Nietzsche

"The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible." -Bertrand Russell

"Mathematics possesses not only truth, but beauty- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture." -Bertand Russell.

"Hell is other people" -Jean Paul Sartre

"How can we be sure we are not imposters?" -Jacques Lacan

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking" -Albert Einstein

"Superstition sets the whole world in flames; Philosophy quenches them" -Voltaire

[Rei]

"The names of fools are seen on walls and doors." -- Cicero

[Julius Caesar]

The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.
- Confucius

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
- Karl Marx

A man's character is his fate.
- Heraclitus

[Fish Tank]

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

-Friedrich Nietzsche


Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

-Saint Thomas Aquinas

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

-Saint Thomas Aquinas