philosophy Quotes

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.