Quotes About Philosophy

...and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Life, the universe and everything is a time illusion.Khalid Masood

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights Thou hast another time and space as well.

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.

I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.

I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

I'm no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).

All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.

The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them.

"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.

Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning.

No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.

The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world.

I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.