The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
It cannot… be expected of all to be poets and philosophers; it is necessary that the greater part of mankind should be employed in the minute business of common life; minute, indeed, not if we consider its influence upon our happiness, but if we respect the abilities requisite to conduct it.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally “satisfied”, but not equally “happy”. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not the capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.
The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
‘Tis well to have a theory, and sit in the center of it.
There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
