To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory — the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
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