We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced..
What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion..
Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for cer….
People may come along and argue philosophically that they like one better than another; but we have learned from much experience that all philosophic….
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance..
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter..
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases..
I know that previously I would not have dared to express myself so explicitly about so uncertain a matter. I can take this risk because I am now in m….
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle..
More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason ….
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery..
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essenti….
No obligation to do the impossible is binding..
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power..
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 hims….
We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical dis….
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool..
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind..
I shall assume that your silence gives consent..
They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the ti….
In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to….