Philosophical Quotes - Page 24

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Time takes all and gives all

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists - like the painting experts hated the painter - hate God because He does exist.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.