Quotes About Philosophy

Socrates argued that only God can be a sophist, only God can be truly wise.

So at that time of day when the early sun still rings haloes on human heads, Socrates is walking through the Agora to his judgement day.

The highest hope of Socrates' peers, of young Athenian men, was to serve Athens by dying for her.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Maybe...in a way, this coffee reminds me of something. Maybe...maybe only a philosopher or a mad man would make this connection, but it's a little like life. I mean it's powerful going down and that doesn't even take into account the aftertaste, which really takes getting used to.

Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable.

On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.

One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.

The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated it, you have to put it aside and see within. That's the whole method of meditation, awareness, watchfulness.

Arjuna, before understanding the Bhagavad-gita, was a fighter, and after understanding the Bhagavad-gita he remained a fighter.

when one is intelligent enough, one tries to find out the supreme cause of all causes - within and without.

Morn after morn dispels the dark, Bearing our lives away; Absorbed in cares we fail to mark How swift our years decay; Some maddening draught hath drugged our souls, In love with vital breath, Which still the same sad chart unrolls, Birth, eld, disease, and death.

Trees loaded with fruit are bent down; the clouds when charged with fresh rain hang down near the earth: even so good men are not uplifted through prosperity. Such is the natural character of the liberal.

I would maintain that the buddhist world-view, with its recognition of the crucial role of the mind and the inconceivably vast dimensions of reality is much richer and more adequate to philosophical reflection than the flattened world-view bequeathed to us through a presumptuous misapplication of the scientific method beyond its legitimate domain.

The wise man carries his possessions within him.

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Kayg? da korku gibi kendi memesinin oburudur.

Bir olanaks?zl??a inanmak istemeyebilir ki?i, ama onu kabul etmek gerekince de içi parçalanmadan ya?am?n? sürdürebilir. Oysa Düzeltmenin yaln?zl???, yeryüzünde sönen her yüzeyle ac?la??yor, daha, daha daha ac?la??yorsa çok dü?ünüp çözümünü bulamad??? bir sorun kar??s?nda eli kolu ba?l? kalmas?ndan.

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