Philosopher Quotes

Truth is what works.
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.
Plurality should not be posited without necessity.
Every failure is a step to success.
Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.
Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.
It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.
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