Quotes about Philosophy

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

The science of mathematics treats its object as though it were something abstracted mentally, whereas it is not abstract in reality.

What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.

Nothing to be done. I'm beginning to come round to that opinion.

In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

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.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.