Philosophy Quotes

"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity" "Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination" "Dare to know" "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason There is nothing higher than reason" "Man is a mystery. It needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being." "The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular." "Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man." "Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms." "It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise." "Effective action is always unjust" "At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough" "An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex" "There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors of perception" "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history" "Maybe this world is another planet's hell"