Quotes About Philosophy

Love without philosophizing is like having a quick coffee.

The most fundamental idea in Huna philosophy is that we each create our own personal experience of reality, by our beliefs, interpretations, actions and reactions, thoughts and feelings.

Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.

Abans que nasquem, hi ha un abisme. Després de morts, hi ha un abisme. La mostra vida és només un gra de sorra a l'oceà indiferent de la infinitud. Intentem almenys que aquest instant no s'enfosqueixi de tristor i d'avorriment! Intentem deixar una esgarrapada a l'escorça terrestre." La maleta, Sergei Dovlatov

Others are not born bad or good... and neither are people, by the way.

The past is not important. The present is inconsequential. The future is indeterminate. He

He enjoyed life for its own sake, not for material possessions. Life was the exact opposite of money, which in itself meant nothing.

N?ra ir niekada nebus Rojaus, o tik ledin?s pragaro lygumos, kuriose kiekvien? valand? kaupiasi žemiškojo pasaulio turtai. Šalti ir bežadžiai žmogiškojo gyvenimo krantai, kuriuose viešpatauja ne dvasia, o materija.

There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.

An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense.

Un filósofo de la vida debe echar siempre mano del lapicero porque no tiene derecho a que sus pensamientos se desperdicien. De lo contrario se convierte en un pensador inofensivo, como un león que ha perdido sus colmillos, y no hay cosa peor que un león obligado a régimen vegetariano.

Virtually everyone knows that Aristotle sometimes lies.

Philosophers wrestling with the big questions of life are no longer alone. Now scientists are struggling to define life as they manipulate it, look for it on other planets, and even create it in test tubes.

Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.

Japan has more specialists of Immanuel Kant than Germany does [RIS 2016 Lecture on A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World]

The question, therefore, is not whether one should teach philosophy to Muslim students, but rather what kind or kinds of philosophy should be taught and how the subject should be approached.

The idea of writing the history of philosophy as philosophy began with Hegel's influence in Germany, and then it spread to France and England, and histories of philosophies began to appear everywhere in Europe and America.

Without the withering criticism by nominalism, medieval Christian philosophy and theology would not have relinquished their claim to the role of knowledge in discovering the nature of things in light of higher principles; instead, it caused them to leave the field of battle without any defense before the onslaught of secularism, rationalism, and empiricism, which were, as a result, able to gain a remarkably easy victory.

The materialistic conception of nature did not go unchallenged during the nineteenth century, particularly in art and literature where the romantic movement sought to re-establish a more intimate bond with nature and the indwelling spirit within nature. The philosophical Romantic poets like Novalis devoted themselves most of all to the theme of nature and its significance for man.

To consider Western science simply as a continuation of Islamic science is, therefore, to misunderstand completely both the epistemological foundations of the two sciences and the relationship that each has to the world of faith and revelation. It is also to misunderstand the metaphysical and philosophical backgrounds of the two sciences.

Furthermore, in the 13th/19th century philosophy began to see itself as a complete replacement for religion as one can see in the rise of the very idea of ideology at that time, a term used widely today even by Muslims who rarely realize the essentially secular and anti-religious character of the very concept of ideology which has gradually come to replace traditional religion in so many circles.

What if in REALITY the only great thing in [us] was just the THEORY of maybe loving each other

Space and Time are the modes by which we think, not the conditions in which we live' – Albert Einstein

Who am I? One fed up with his self, at war with sanity.