philosophy Quotes

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

All art is quite useless.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.