Quotes about Philosophy

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...

Don't gain the world & lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Education is not a thing apart from life—not a "system," nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.

For the Greeks, beauty is truth; for the Hebrews, truth is beauty.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

A being than which nothing greater can be conceived to exist.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.