philosophy Quotes

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.