Philosophical Quotes - Page 19

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

My ex-wife was a philosophy major at NYU. Yeah, she and I used to have deep philosophical discussions where she would prove that I didn't exist.

Who is it that can tell me who I am?

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

The human brain is hardwired to have this fundamental experience of universal consciousness, which is available to anyone from any culture, of any age, any religion, and without any philosophical predisposition.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

The less men think, the more they talk.

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.