Philosophy Quotes

"Philosophy is common sense with big words." "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." "Every other is completely other" "Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets" "We inhabit a language rather than a country" "The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death" "Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play." "We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without." "Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law." "To have opinions is to sell the essence of today for the essence of tomorrow." "The courage of truth is the first condition of philosophic study." "An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think." "Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond." "The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom." "The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history." "Time and tide wait for no man" "Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates." "There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion" "Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest" "The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers"