Inspirational Quotes on Philosophy

“Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.”

“Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.”

“To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.”

“Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.”

“Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.”

“The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary colour in the spectrum.”

“Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”

“You cannot study pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.”

“This moment contains all moments.”

“We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.”

“Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.”

“No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.”

“If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.”

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”

“It does seem to me like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most necessary.”

“I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.”

“In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.”

“Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.”

“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.”

“A yawn is a silent shout.”