Philosopher Quotes

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
All currency is neurotic currency.
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Love without attachment is light.
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
The view only changes for the lead dog.
I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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