Philosophy Quotes

You don’t need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life.

With us philosophy is not practised as a private art, as it was by the Greeks, but has a public place, and should therefore be employed only in the service of the state.

What is your aim in philosophy? – To shew the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.[Was ist dein Ziel in der Philosophie? — Der Fliege den Ausweg aus dem Fliegenglas zeigen.]

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.[Diese wirkliche Welt der Erkennbarkeit, in der wir sind und die in uns ist, bleibt, wie der Stoff, so auch die Gränze unserer Betrachtung.]

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Philosophical involvement blinded me to authentic human fact.

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.[Nur die Höllenfahrt des Selbsterkenntnisses bahnt den Weg zur Vergötterung.]

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.[Wahrheit in der Philosophie heißt das, daß der Begriff der Realität entspreche.]

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.[Gedanken ohne Inhalt sind leer, Anschauungen ohne Begriffe sind blind.]

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.[Il n’y a qu’un problème philosophique vraiment sérieux: c’est le suicide.]