Philosophy Quotes

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know" "To have opinions is to sell the essence of today for the essence of tomorrow." "Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates." "Time and tide wait for no man" "The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history." "The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom." "Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond." "An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think." "The courage of truth is the first condition of philosophic study." "Philosophy is its own time comprehended in thoughts." "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe" "Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction No read in order to live" "The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy"