Philosophy Quotes

Hinduism is not interested in the common man. Hinduism is not interested in Society as a whole. The centre of its interest lies in a classand its philosophy is concerned in sustaining and supporting the rights of that class.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

We've changed our internal motto from "Move fast and break things" to "Move fast with stable infrastructure."

At Facebook, we are squarely in the camp of the companies that work hard to charge you less ... I think it's important that we don't all get Stockholm syndrome and let the companies that work hard to charge you more convince you that they actually care more about you.

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living in illusion as a goal!

A married philosopher belongs to comedy.

One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.

To live alone one must be a beast or a God, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Against that positivism which stops at phenomena, saying 'there are only facts,' I would say: No, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

One must be born to any superior world - to make it plainer, one must be bred for it. One has a right to philosophy (taking the word in its greatest sense) only by virtue of one's breeding; one's ancestors, one's blood, decides this, too.

We cannot help but see Socrates as the turning-point, the vortex of world history.