Philosophy Quotes – A Pondering Mind

Nothing In Nature

“Nothing in nature is by chance… Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.”

~ Baruch Spinoza

“All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”

~ John Locke

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know. ~ Bertrand Russell

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. ~Bertrand Russell

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me. ~ G. W. F. Hegel

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~ Bertrand Russell

“Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy.” -Soren Kierkegaard

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s lnability to sit quietly in a room alone.” -Blaise Pascal

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. ~William James

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. ~ Bertrand Russell

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday. ~ Marcus Aurelius

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. ~ Oscar Wilde

“How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?” ~ John Stuart Mill

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t. ~ Albert Camus

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. ~ Bertrand Russell

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception. ~ George Boole

Two Kinds Of Truth

There are two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

~ Gottfried Leibniz

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know. ~ Bertrand Russell

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. ~George Berkeley

Common Sense

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Rene Descartes

Life Is The Fire …..

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternty.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca