Philosophy Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“But there is one thing that is infinitely more absurd and unpractical than burning a man for his philosophy. This is the habit of…

— G.K. Chesterton

“It is foolish, generally speaking, for a philosopher to set fire to another philosopher in Smithfield Market because they do not agree in their…

— G.K. Chesterton

“It is with philosophy as with religion : men marvel at the absurdity of other people's tenets, while exactly parallel absurdities remain in their own.”

— John Stuart Mill

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“There is nothing how-so-ever absurd which is not defended by some theologian.”

— Anonymous

“Oh, just some crap about the essential paradox of man: How we refuse to juxtapose the absolute to the relative, and some other some-such…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the…

— Julio Cortázar

“The greatest madness a man can be guilty of in this life, is to let himself die outright, without being slain by any person…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“When principles are so absurd and so destructive of human society, it may safely be averred, that the more sincere and the more disinterested…

— David Hume

“The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“the man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his…

— Philip Kerr

“When sceptical about reality, man tends to believe the absurd.”

— Raheel Farooq