Quotes on Philosophy

From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.