Philosopher Quotes

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
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