Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up in to our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
The more conscious a philosopher is of the weak spots of his theory, the more certain he is to speak with an air of final authority.
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both – a philosopher.
There is no escape from philosophy. The question is only whether a philosophy is conscious or not, whether it is good or bad, muddled or clear. Anyone who rejects philosophy is himself unconsciously practicing a philosophy.
Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.
The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence.
It cannot… be expected of all to be poets and philosophers; it is necessary that the greater part of mankind should be employed in the minute business of common life; minute, indeed, not if we consider its influence upon our happiness, but if we respect the abilities requisite to conduct it.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally “satisfied”, but not equally “happy”. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not the capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.
