Philosophy Quotes

O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew no...

Man is a dubious mixture of mind and matter; since the mind unlocks recognition of the eternal to hi...

Cada época, cada cultura, cada costume e tradição tem seu próprio estilo, tem sua delicadeza e sua s...

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think i...

For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so c...

Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap...

The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly an...

Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,” Joseph exclaimed. “If only there were a dogma t...

Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like w...

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total re...

When you're asked to stay out of a bar you don't just punch the owner--you come back with your army ...

Everything about us, everything around us, everything we know and can know of is composed ultimately...

You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

Both [Quine and Feyerabend] want to revise a version of positivism. Quine started with the Vienna Ci...

Every secret of the body was rendered up--bone risen through flesh, sacrilegious glimpses of an inte...

A similar experiment may be tried in metaphysics as regards the *intuition* of objects. If the intui...

Metaphysics, a completely isolated and speculative branch of rational knowledge which is raised abov...

This experiment succeeds as hoped and promises to metaphysics, in its first part, which deals with t...

Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.

On the other hand, the moral law, although it gives no such prospect, does provide a fact absolutely...

By this freedom the will of a rational being, as belonging to the sensuous world, recognizes itself ...

The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three foll...

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

We have seen, therefore, that I am not allowed even to *assume*, for the sake of the necessary pract...

Our critique is not opposed to the *dogmatic procedure* of reason in its pure knowledge as science (...

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a unive...

The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old pr...

Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make ...

An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot ...

An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot ...

True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics it...

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

To know what questions may reasonably be asked is already a great and necessary proof of sagacity an...

Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of our mind; the first is to receive representati...

(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless ...

[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehende...

Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderin...

It will be seen how there can be the idea of a special science, the *critique of pure reason* as it ...

Here then we see philosophy brought to a critical position, since it has to be firmly fixed, notwith...

Finer feeling, which we now wish to consider, is chiefly of two kinds: the feeling of the *sublime* ...

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a...

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

Myslím, že na místa, kde se odvíjely rozhodující události našich životů, stojí za to občas zavítat, ...

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty history of science without philosophy of s...

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty history of science without philosophy of s...

Sartre turns love into a ‘battle between two hypnotists in a closed room’.

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready ...

I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful state of mind, oblivious to my surrounding...

The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been fo...

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy,...

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

I shall not be alive a half decade hence,” said Seldon, “and yet it is of overpowering concern to me...

At moments when Herman fantasized about a new metaphysics, or even a new religion, he based everythi...

If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the mar...

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations int...

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach ...

In arguing against free enterprise capitalism, the collectivist always adopts the false assumption o...

The view that the truth is one and undivided, and the same for all men everywhere at all times, whet...

Men would no longer be victims of nature or of their own largely irrational societies: reason would ...

I was living and dying in all the fibers of what is chewed and digested and in all the fibers that a...

Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comp...

You are an old pig!'one of them said to the other. 'And that is worse than being a young one.

You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logi...

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgmen...

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselv...

To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.

I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philos...

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consi...

We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also re...

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated...

It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiti...

This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into n...

The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, b...

In general, I try and distinguish between what one calls the Future and “l’avenir” [the ‘to come]. T...

Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but...

Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which alread...

Still less, despite appearances, will it have been a collection of three “essays” whose itinerary it...

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its com...

It goes without saying that these effects do not suffice to annul the necessity for a “change of ter...

Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), ...

For the same reason there is nowhere to begin to trace the sheaf or the graphics of differance. For ...

But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and your...

And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so ...

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the ...

In periods when shallow speculation is rife, one might think that metaphysics would shine forth, at ...

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even men...

I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent...

It’s not an academic question any more to ask what’s going to happen to a cloud. People very much wa...

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely re...

Philosophy is common sense with big words.