Philosophy is a state of fermentation, a process without final outcome.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
Napoleon was a contemporary of Kant, Goethe, Mozart, and Beethoven. Compare their tombs, and you will get an aesthetic measure of how much more we admire a great soldier than a great philosopher, poet, or composer.
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man’s life than in all the philosophies.
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.
