Quotes About Philosophy

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Figure, movement. Everything happens, says Pascal, from figure and movement. To say in this case that everything happens from movement, for every figure is no more than the lingering trace of a movement that has already ceased. Thus the letters that I am forming now, for example, are only the pen's lingering trace of the movement of my hand.

I quoted Menand's restatement of Kierkegaard: Anxiety is the price humans pay for freedom. My restatement of Kierkegaard and Menand is that anxiety is the price humans pay for autonoetic consciousness.

And our understanding of that motion remains fundamentally paradoxical.

In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies...

Maybe it's fear that prevents us from doing so. Such a discovery would alter the course of history as we know it. We would have to acknowledge that we weren't the species supreme in our own universe. The impact on religions and philosophy alone would be incredible.

Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.

You know what my motto is?' I didn't think people had mottoes anymore,' I said. Think fantastic,' Chuck said. 'My motto is, Think fantastic.

It is certain that no man can be firmly and honestly convinced of the non-existence of God. For, in the first place, no human being enjoying the full use of reason can find a really conclusive argument for the thesis that there is no God.

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

We shall never meet, but there is something I want you to know. My time is not the same as your time. Our times are not the same. And do you know what that means? That means that time does not exist. Do you want me to repeat that? There is no time. There is a life and a death. There are people and animals. Our thoughts exist. And the world. The universe, too. But there is no time. You might as well take it easy. Do you feel better now? I feel better. This is going to work out. Have a nice day.

Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.

Perspektiva bi trebalo da bude nešto što može da se kupi i ubrizga intravenozno.

Tata? Mm? Da smo slonovi, bili bismo pet slonova. Da. Blesavo, je l' da? Da ,jeste. Zamisli to! Da. Odli?no Bertolde.Lepo.

Si el universo es pasajero, es fácil pensar que la vida humana carece de sentido. ¿Por qué tendría que hacer nada en absoluto?

Det med, at universet ser ud til at have en afslutning, lægger naturligvis en dæmper på et eller andet. Alle tanker om evigt liv sætter sig fast i halsen. Men det er ikke noget, der plager mig. Ikke nu. Tværtimod. Jeg føler mig mere levende, end jeg har gjort længe. Pludselig føles det helt fint at have en frist at forholde sig til. Jeg har egentlig altid arbejdet bedst under pres.

Hace tiempo que lo de envejecer está asociado para mí a cierta inquietud. En general el espacio me importa una mierda, pero tengo problemas con el tiempo.

Every event has a cause--that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of events e2, e3 ...) which precedes e1 and of which e1 is a necessary consequence.... If we assent to this statement then your "choice" to do A rather than B, whatever may have been at the time your sensation of freedom from any constraint, was entirely necessitated. You could not have done otherwise and hence, according to this conception of freedom, were not free.

Any position that presents itself as specifying what knowledge is has to face the issue of self-referentiality.

Philosophy is unruliness, it is exploring both sides of the issue, it is defending a position and then destroying it, it is looking for hidden contradictions, it is wondering what you will, how you will, or that you will.

Dicen que el cuerpo es como el armario donde se guarda el alma. Está bien. Sin embargo, a veces, el alma es tan grande que el cuerpo, como grano de anís, se guarda en el alma.

Y para qué quieren ser libres si no saben ser libres? La libertad no es gracia que se recibe ni derecho que se conquista. Se es libre aunque se carezca de libertad. Los hierros y las cárceles no impiden que un hombre sea libre. La libertad de un hombre no es como la libertad de los pájaros que se satisface en el vaivén de un aroma. La libertad de un hombre está en su conciencia.

We are gods with anuses.

Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.