Philosophy Quotes

"The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class" "Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form" "Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think" "Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny." "I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer." "One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist." "The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth" "No paradox, no progress" "Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact." "It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently." "The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month." "Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness." "I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea." "The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness." "People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel." "Realists do not fear the results of their study." "The more of himself man attributes to God the less he has left in himself" "The production of ideas of conceptions of consciousness is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men the language of real life" "We turn not older with years, but newer every day" "Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath"