If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
If all the ruminations and ponderances were laid end to end along the equator, they would most likely go around in a really big circle.
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men’s minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
Had there been a literary censorship in Rome, we should have had today neither Horace, Juvenal, nor the philosophical works of Cicero. If Milton, Dryden, Pope, and Locke had not been free, England would have had neither poets nor philosophers; there is something positively Turkish in proscribing printing; and hampering it is proscription.
He (Rousseau) is the father of the romantic movement, the initiator of systems of thought which infer non-human facts from human emotions, and the inventor of the political philosophy of pseudo-democratic dictatorships as opposed to traditional absolute monarchies. Ever since his time, those who considered themselves reformers have been divided into two groups, those who […]
Love makes us poets, and the approach of death should makes us philosophers.
