Don’t let me catch anyone talking about the universe in my department.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
For there was never yet a philosopher – that could endure the toothache patiently. (Much Ado About Nothing)
Philosophy and religion are enemies, and because they are enemies they have need of one another. There is no religion without some philosophical basis, no philosophy without roots in religion. Each lives by its contrary.
Philosophy is a state of fermentation, a process without final outcome.
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.
