Quotes About Philosophy

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

O mortal man, think mortal thoughts!

Wisdom-loving" translates philosophos. (If I dared, I'd translate it "wannabe-wise" as opposed to sophos, "having smarts," skillful.)

A wisdom-loving man must be inquiring into many things. (35)

I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing.

Momentary pleasures of hedonism are distinct from deeper and more lasting satisfaction; and in order to achieve such satisfaction, we need to reflect on who we are and what our lives are for. We cannot be fully human without thinking about what being human means.

And when Finn complained at the end of a day that they had not come very far, she said, "What does it matter? We've got all the time in the world." Which is not always a clever thing to say.

Vladimir decided to bin his second attempt at his Partisan memoirs and to begin writing a book entitled How to Survive the Years Leading Up to Death. Peter observed that all years were years leading up to death, so why not just call the book How to Survive.

Buddhism needs its fucking Nietzsche --

So how about you?, I said: what do you do, if you don't mind my asking; -Not at all, he said: I'm into mitosis; -Aren't we all, I said;-

And guess what he finds. Nothing. And I mean that literally. Not a de Brogliesque absence of presence but a Tertullian presence of absence.

Setelah kebijaksanaan akan muncul kebahagiaan.

Epictetus, a first-century Stoic philosopher, who said, "Never, when asked one's country, answer, 'I am Athenian or Corinthian,' but 'I am a citizen of the world.

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

In England there's a philosophy that it's better to be bigger and stronger. I was in the gym doing bench-presses which had no relevance and it wasn't helping me on the pitch. It was extra weight I didn't need and I couldn't carry. A lot of injuries came through that.

Good and bad are not really relevant to me.

I make ancient wisdom relevant, but through modern research and science.

People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Religion is all bunk.

I'm not really into religion.

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

Religion is the opium of the masses.