Quotes on Philosophical

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

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

I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or economical; whether it affects well-being, morality, equality, right, justice, progress, responsibility, property, labor, exchange, capital, wages, taxes, population, credit, or Government; at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thing—the solution of the social problem is in liberty.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

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.

I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I just watched it evaporate. You look one moment and there's everything, next moment it's gone. Photography is very philosophical.

Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.