Philosopher Quotes

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
To live is to feel oneself lost.
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
We cannot put off living until we are ready.
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.
As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type.
But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well, this feeling too, when viewed as the mere psychologist has to view it, appears to be simply what all the other friends report about their friends.
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