Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
We are all crazy, but those that analyze their craziness are called philosophers.
Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles on the road.
Apparently Bentham thought that human beings had but two desires, gain and pleasure, and he accepted those desires as the facts of our condition (he hated St. Paul) and tried to make of them a philosophy whose keystone was an eloquent defence of usury. He would have been at home in New York.
If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera.
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
If all the ruminations and ponderances were laid end to end along the equator, they would most likely go around in a really big circle.
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
