Philosophical Quotes - Page 18

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.

Logical investigations can obviously be a useful tool for philosophy. They must, however, be informed by a sensitivity to the philosophical significance of the formalism and by a generous admixture of common sense, as well as a thorough understanding both of the basic concepts and of the technical details of the formal material used. It should not be supposed that the formalism can grind out philosophical results in a manner beyond the capacity of ordinary philosophical reasoning. There is no mathematical substitute for philosophy.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined by the movement of philosophical thought itself. Philosophy was dislodged from this position by philosophy.

You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

Football is the ballet of the masses.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone have been able to create or preserve it. It is the outcome of an objective relationship between the individual and the space he occupies, between the consumer and the resources at his disposal.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.