Quotes about Philosophy
And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.
— Thomas Paine
any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
— William Faulkner
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.
— Aristotle
The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
— Ayn Rand
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
— CS Lewis
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
— Henry David Thoreau
Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?
— Confucius
Men and times change-but principles-never.
— Grover Cleveland
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions
— Aristotle
I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Man - a figment of God's imagination.
— Mark Twain