Quotes about Philosophy
There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.
— Seneca
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
— Seneca
What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing: to live in accord with his nature.
— Seneca
Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
— Florence Nightingale
At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.
— John Lennon
There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't reckon men are supposed to think, Sally said philosophically, as the pile of hemp rope grew at her feet. That's why God gave 'em big muscles.
— Mary Connealy
I don't think a man can hurt another, not in any important way. Neither hurt him nor help him. I have really nothing to forgive you.
— Ayn Rand
You're the most egotistical and the kindest man I know. And that doesn't make sense." "Maybe the concepts don't make sense. Maybe they don't mean what people have been taught to think they mean.
— Ayn Rand
In the transition to statism, every infringement of human rights has begun with a given right's least attractive practitioners
— Ayn Rand
She thought that relaxation was attractive only in those for whom it was an unnatural state; then even limpness acquired purpose.
— Ayn Rand
This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.
— Ayn Rand