whats your favorite philosophical quote?

Answer 1

"The one thing I know, is that I know nothing"-Attributed to Socrates
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance"-Attributed to Socrates

Not verbatum, but pretty damn close. I absolutely love that quote!

Answer 2

i like a lot of philosophical quotes-but i'll just mention a couple. let's see... "the more you have, the more you want" is a recent one i read about. another would be "if you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change how you think about it." as said by mary englebriet? not sure on the spelling of the name. and being religous i appreciate many proverbs and quotes from the Bible. such as "in all ways acknowledge the Lord, and He will make your paths straight." -proverbs 3:6. so yeah, :)

Answer 3

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man
is that life is meaningless

Art is not a handicraft,
It is the transmission of feeling
The artist has experienced

Everyone thinks of changing the world,
But no one thinks of changing himself

Music is the shorthand of emotion
Leo Tolstoy

Answer 4

'Only the stupid have favorite philosophical quotes.' me, but to be honest several are certainly handier than the totality of my reading history. The most present is by Einstein which goes something like 'if we have a third world war, we shall be fighting world war four with sticks and stones.'. and '...on the contrary, it is the social productive forces of society which determine the social form for consciousness' Karl Marx. Now here is what the English translation actually says: 'In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. '

Karl Marx 1859
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

Preface

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Source: K. Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, with some notes by R. Rojas.



http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface.htm

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

Answer 5

Doing the same thing and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.

Answer 6

"What is hell? I think it is the suffering of one who can no longer love. Once, in the infinity of existence unmeasurable by time or space, a spiritual creature, upon its appearance on earth, is given the power to say: 'I am and I love.'"

-The Brothers Karamazov

Answer 7

I don't recall who said it but I adopted this as my motto:
Don't rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Answer 8

Happiness is more in giving than in receiving

Answer 9

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

Answer 10

"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates.

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." A.L.Tennyson