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Quotes About Philosophy

L'art d'écrire est l'art de découvrir ce en quoi vous croyez.
~ Gustave Flaubert
totdeauna r?mîne în conÈ™tiin?? ceva din sofismele strecurate în ea; p?streaz? un iz, ca dup? o b?utur? rea./ ... il reste toujours dans la conscience quelque chose des sophismes qu'on y a versés; elle en garde l'arrière-goût,comme d'une liqueur mauvaise.(©BeQ)
~ Gustave Flaubert
But life is not a series of deeds. My life is my thoughts.
~ Gustave Flaubert
De dónde venía aquella insatisfacción de la vida, aquella instantánea corrupción de las cosas en las que se apoyaba?...
~ Gustave Flaubert
Voltaire lui-même l'a dit : « Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Je suis mystique au fond, et je ne crois à rien
~ Gustave Flaubert
El futuro nos tortura y el pasado nos encadena. He ahí por qué se nos escapa el presente.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The raging desire to come to a final conclusion is one the most deadly and sterile obsessions that belong to humanity. Every religion and philosophy has made claims to its own God, to have touched the infinite, to have discovered the recipe for happiness. What pride and what emptiness! To the contrary, I see that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works don't come to final conclusions.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
~ Guy de Maupassant
But it is sufficient to reflect for a moment, in order to understand that this world was not made for such creatures as we are. Thought, which is developed by a miracle in the nerves of the cells in our brain, powerless, ignorant and confused as it is, and as it will always remain, makes all of us who are intellectual beings eternal and wretched exiles on earth.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Pourquoi souffrons-nous ainsi ? demande le vieux poète Norbert de Varenne à Georges Duroy. C'est que nous étions nés sans doute pour vivre d'avantage selon la matière et moins selon l'esprit ; mais, à force de penser, une disproportion s'est faite entre l'état de notre intelligence agrandie et les conditions immuables de notre vie.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Death need not be sad, it should be a matter of indifference.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Pentru ce suferim astfel? Pentru c? am fost ,f?r? îndoial? n?scuÈ›i s? tr?im mai mult prin materie decât prin spirit, dar gândind mereu ,s-a n?scut o nepotrivire între gradul inteligenÈ›ei noastre m?rite È™i împrejur?rile cu neputin?? de schimbat ale vieÈ›ii noaste.
~ Guy de Maupassant
The wise man says: Perhaps?
~ Guy de Maupassant
Ancak mant???n genellikle aptall?k ve deliliÄŸin de deha olarak adland?r?ld??? ÅŸu dünyada kimlerin bilge, kimlerin kaç?k olduÄŸunu söyleyebilir miyiz?
~ Guy de Maupassant
Vivre enfin, c'est mourir!
~ Guy de Maupassant
Soha senki sem tér vissza. Milliók és milliárdok fognak megszületni, körülbelül hasonlóak egymáshoz, lesz szemük, orruk, szájuk, koponyájuk, gondolat is benne, de az, aki ebben az ágyban fekszik, sohasem jelenik meg újra.
~ Guy de Maupassant
És most a halálomat érzem mindenben, akármit csinálok. Minden lépés a halálhoz visz közelebb, minden mozdulat, minden lehelet annak az utálatos munkáját sietteti. Lélegzés, alvás, evés, munka, álom, minden, amit csinálunk – halál. Egyszóval élni annyi, mint meghalni!
~ Guy de Maupassant
Egyedül a halál bizonyos.
~ Guy de Maupassant
I have written less than most writers. But I have drunk far more than most drinkers.
~ Guy Debord
So far from realizing philosophy, the spectacle philosophizes reality, and turns the material life of everyone into a universe of speculation.
~ Guy Debord
The spectacle does not realize philosophy, it philosophizes reality.
~ Guy Debord
The spectacle does not realize philosophy, it philosophizes reality, reducing everyone's concrete life to a universe of speculation.
~ Guy Debord
That which was the economic it must become the I.
~ Guy Debord