Philosophy Quotes

"Philosophy is the search for meaning in existence."

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first."

"Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral?"

"To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead."

"Pity is for the living; envy is for the dead."

"A person is a fool who tries to sum up their whole nature in a single sentence."

"Disapproval is a very reasonable ground for dislike; I dislike things too."

"Philosophy's purpose is to ask better questions, not provide easy answers."

"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."

"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast."

"The question is, what is a man after all? A poor creature, dependent on the care of others."

"It were not right to assume that the whole frame of things may be sustained by a single image."

"Every man carries within him a world."

"There is a kinship between all thinking creatures."

"To understand humanity, one must first understand oneself."

"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd way."

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country turns out."

"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, unfinished argument."

"The human race is faced with a cruel choice: give up its cherished postulates and discard the mode of living to which the whole social order is adjusted, or forfeit the prospect of survival."

"Tradition is the illusion of permanence."

"The facts of individual men's lives do not interest me."

"There is nothing more futile than theorizing about morality."

"Men are not really interested in what you say, only in what you have to offer them."

"The human condition is a disease, with no cure in sight."

"Language is the prison we build to contain our thoughts."

"Words are weapons that wound twice—the speaker and the listener."

"Our greatest enemy is not external but the self we carry within."

"The mind is a museum of regrets we revisit endlessly."

"The greatest gift is the ability to feel nothing."

"Society is the agreement to lie together comfortably."