Quotes about Philosophy

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

The truth, in so far as a human being is able to attain such a thing, lies in a statement which it seems impossible to disprove. It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

For we cannot speak of the beginning; where the beginning begins our thinking stops, it comes to an end.

Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest.

The most general formulation of rights given with the natural is, in the words of Roman law, suum cuique, to each his own.

God as a working hypothesis in morals, politics, or science has been surmounted and abolished; and the same thing has happened in philosophy and religion (Feuerbach!). For the sake of intellectual honesty, that working hypothesis should be dropped, or as far as possible eliminated.

The fact that he was ashamed when he was discovered praying was for Kant an argument against prayer. He failed to see that prayer by its very nature is a matter for the strictest privacy, and he failed to perceive the fundamental significance of shame for human existence.

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.