Philosophy Quotes

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.

Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.

We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.