Quotes about Philosophy
Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
— Aristotle
It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).
— Aristotle
It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.
— Marty Rubin
All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
— GK Chesterton
Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?
— Marcus Aurelius
The English philosopher and geometer, Keith Critchlow, brings his own light to the same point: "The human mind takes apart with its analytic habits of reasoning but the human heart puts things together because it loves them . . ."18
— Wendell Berry
I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
— William Faulkner
how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
— William Faulkner
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
— William Faulkner
be.—Yes he thought Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
— William Faulkner
It's all now you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.
— William Faulkner