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The only secure knowledge is that I exist
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy
A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing
To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed
I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it
My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher
An unexamined life is not worth living
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all
You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse
All men desire to know
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them
Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old
Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant
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