Quotes About Philosophy

I wish, by the way, that I knew who separated Time from eternity; there seems only one thing to me, and I always feel that I am in eternity.

But how many moments are already past! Ah! who thinks of those that are past?

As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.

By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time.

Great books conserve time.

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.

Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.

What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?

In antihistory, time is an illusion.

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.

To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.

Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty face from day to day.

Time is the mercy of Eternity without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.

Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.