Quotes on Philosophical

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Democracy passes into despotism.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

No one knows enough to be a pessimist

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

By daily dying, I have come to be.

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.