Quotes about Philosophy
A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.
— Marcus Aurelius
What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?
— Margaret Atwood
This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith
— Paul Ricoeur
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
— Henry David Thoreau
We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.
— Henry David Thoreau
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.
— Henry David Thoreau
What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.
— Henry David Thoreau
There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.
— Herman Melville
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.
— Herman Melville
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
— John Ortberg
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
— Khalil Gibran
If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.
— Epictetus