Philosopher Quotes

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
Oaths are the fossils of piety.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
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