Quotes About Philosophy

La théorie révolutionnaire est maintenant ennemie de toute idéologie révolutionnaire, et elle sait qu'elle l'est.

The fact remains, I was never meant to sell china. Only truly saintly men are cut out for that; the sort of men who trudge the roads to Benares, or reside on the icy hilltops speculating on infinity. It takes more faith than I can summon.

By necessity practical and by philosophy stern, these folk were not beautiful in their sins.

If the average man is made in God's image, then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God....

That Crawford Tilinghast should ever have studied science and philosophy was a mistake. These things should be left to the frigid and impersonal investigator for they offer two equally tragic alternatives to the man of feeling and action; despair, if he fail in his quest, and terrors unutterable and unimaginable if he succeed.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

As I grow older I am unpleasantly impressed by the fact that giving each human being but one life is a bad scheme.

Um metafísico é alguém que, quando você lhe diz que dois vezes dois são quatro, ele quer saber o que você entende por vezes, o que significa dois, e o que quer dizer são e por que isto dá quatro. Por fazerem tais perguntas, os metafísicos desfrutam um luxo oriental nas universidades e são respeitados como homens educados e inteligentes.

Nos sobran hombres reflexivos y liberales que no actúan o no pueden hacerlo, y los hombres de acción incapaces de pensar de forma visionaria y liberal.

Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

Certainly, the terror of a deserted house swells in geometrical rather than arithmetical progression as houses multiply to form a city of stark desolation. The sight of such endless avenues of fishy-eyed vacancy and death, and the thought of such linked infinities of black, brooding compartments given over to cob-webs and memories and the conqueror worm, start up vestigial fears and aversions that not even the stoutest philosophy can disperse.

I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which we are made

He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers had taught him to look into the logical relations of things, and analyse the processes which shaped his thoughts and fancies. Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.

we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.

Los sabios interpretan los sueños, y los dioses se ríen.

Next year I may be dwelling in the Egypt which you call ancient, or in the cruel empire of Tsan Chan which is to come three thousand years hence. You and I have drifted to the worlds that reel about the red Arcturus, and dwelt in the bodies of the insect-philosophers that crawl proudly over the fourth moon of Jupiter. How little does the earth self know life and its extent! How little, indeed, ought it to know for its own tranquility!

I don't believe that there is any fourth dimension, and I emphatically do not believe in Tao.

Only the sombre philosophy of the Decadents could hold us, and this we found potent only by increasing gradually the depth and diabolism of our penetrations.