Quotes about Philosophy

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine—things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.

I have an habitual feeling of my real life having passed, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

The philosopher must argue for sense experience by appealing to sense experience. What choice does he have? If he appeals to something else as his final authority, he is simply being inconsistent. But this is the case with any basic commitment. When we are arguing on behalf of an absolute authority, then our final appeal must be to that authority and to no other. A proof of the primacy of reason must appeal to reason; a proof of the necessity of logic must appeal to logic;

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.