philosophy Quotes

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Law is mind without reason.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.