Philosophical Quotes - Page 41

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

Somebody insults you and you feel anger. Don't miss this opportunity; try to understand why, why this anger. And don't make it a philosophical thing. Don't go to the library to consult about anger. Anger is happening to you -- it is an experience, a live experience. Focus your whole attention on it and try to understand why it is happening to you. It is not a philosophical problem. No Freud is to be consulted about it. There is no need! It is just foolish to consult somebody else while anger is happening to you. You can touch it. You can taste it. You will be burned by it.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.

During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if we take this term to mean all those whose mother-tongue was Arabic, and not merely those living in the Arabian peninsula. For centuries, Arabic was the language of learning, culture and intellectual progress for the whole of the civilized world with the exception of the Far East. From the IXth to the XIIth century there were more philosophical, medical, historical, religiuos, astronomical and geographical works written in Arabic than in any other human tongue.

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.

Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love

When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.

As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a 'philosophical conception painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness.

In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science, with considering man as another part of nature and with ignoring the fact that he, the investigator, is himself a man and experiences this humanity in his inner experience in a way that he simply cannot experience any part of nature.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.