Quotes about Philosophy

it is worthy of consideration, indeed marvelous, how besides his life in concreto, a person always leads a second in abstracto as well.

It is no longer sufficient to love others as himself and to do as much for them as he would do for himself; rather, a repugnance arises in him… towards the will-to-live, towards the core and essence of that world recognized as filled with misery.

we have found that the whole essence of matter lies in action, a i.e. in causality: as a result, matter must also unify space and time, that is, matter must possess the properties of both time and space simultaneously

the longer you live the more clearly you will feel that, on the whole, life is a disappointment, nay, a cheat.

There is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy….So long as we persist in this inborn error, and indeed even become confirmed in it through optimistic dogmas, the world seems to us full of contradictions.

Therefore, without doubt, the happiest destiny on earth is to have the rare gift of a rich individuality, and, more especially to be possessed of a good endowment of intellect; this is the happiest destiny, though it may not be, after all, a very brilliant one.

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.

There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.