Quotes about Philosophy

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

The philosopher must argue for sense experience by appealing to sense experience. What choice does he have? If he appeals to something else as his final authority, he is simply being inconsistent. But this is the case with any basic commitment. When we are arguing on behalf of an absolute authority, then our final appeal must be to that authority and to no other. A proof of the primacy of reason must appeal to reason; a proof of the necessity of logic must appeal to logic;

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.