Attainment Quote by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy…

— Soren Kierkegaard

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.

— Rene Descartes

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.

— Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock,…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Philosophy is the health of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

— Seneca the Younger

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

— William James

Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe…

— Bertrand Russell

Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got…

— Charlie Trotter

When the mind is most empty It is most full.

— Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.

— Sadhu Sundar Singh

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

— Novalis