Quotes About Philosophy

The scientific picture of the real world around me is deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order. But it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity.

MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

Dejando de lado la metáfora, pienso que la filosofía de los antiguos griegos nos atrae hoy porque nunca antes o desde entonces, en ningún lugar del mundo, se ha establecido nada parecido a su altamente avanzado y articulado sistema de conocimiento y especulación sin la fatídica división que nos ha estorbado durante siglos y que ha llegado a hacerse insufrible en nuestros días.

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

Most igyekszem valamilyen értelmet csempészni a napomba. Értelmet csempészni – ez is lehet egy foglalkozás. Vajon mi a büntetési tétele? Értelemcsempészés közben lebukott.

We would define a belief as a thought you continue to think.

Philosophy is difficult, like looking directly at the tip of your nose is difficult! We rely in every act of knowing on foundational philosophical beliefs.

What we think of the one shapes what we think of the other. If you find that you think there is nothing more to reality than what lab experiments uncover or our eyes see, a little additional thought should show that this claim itself is not the sort of thing that lab experiments could ever uncover or eyes ever see.

Dear soul, am I only because I have been?

philosophy is a non-knowledge: thought takes pleasure in measuring its borders

Bir düÅŸün. DüÅŸte herkes duvar?n öte yan?na geçiyor çünkü varoluÅŸlar?n? ciddiye alm?yorlar. Ama sen, kafan sürekli kendinle meÅŸgul olduÄŸu için duvar? aÅŸam?yorsun. Bu düÅŸ dosyas? çoktan kapanm??t?r. EÄŸitimsel neredeyse, bana sorarsan.

Morality does not derive its nature from books, but from the fitness of things.

Most of the human race, by one means or other, are prepossessed with principles opposed to the religion of reason.

Those who invalidate reason, ought seriously to consider, 'whether they argue against reason, with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle, that they are laboring to dethrone;' but if they argue without reason, (which, in order to be consistent with themselves, they must do,) they are out of the reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.

I for one have ceased to cling to life and to things; I have the feeling that everything is accidental, that one must break one's inner bonds with people and stand aside for all else.

Tous les chats sont mortels. Socrate est mortel. Donc Socrate est un chat.

Living is abnormal.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

penetrating into the spirit of the Great Doctrine.

It is generally admitted that Dhyana Buddhism, which was born in India and, after undergoing profound changes, reached full development in China, to be finally adopted by Japan, where it is cultivated as a living tradition to this day, has disclosed unsuspected ways of existence which it is of the utmost importance for us to understand.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Gabriel Marcel wrote that life is not so much a problem to be solved as a mystery to be explored.

this book, giving voice to what is so basic among men and women throughout history, I have translated it "the Quester."]

A work of art really is above all an adventure of the mind.