Philosophy Quotes

From Philosophy Archive

'"The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful." Sir Alfred Jules Ayer

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind." George Berkeley (also Homer Simpson)

"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell" Confucius

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." Socrates

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." Tolstoy

T"he great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life." C. S. Lewis

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view that they take of them." Epictetus

"What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from ... We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time." T. S. Eliot

"Eternal life belongs to those who live in the present." Wittgenstein

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." Einstein