Quotes About Philosophy

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine.

How shall the dead arise, is no question of my faith; to believe only possibilities, is not faith, but mere philosophy.

You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of your complicated state of mind,The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.And everyone will say,As you walk your mystic way,"If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me,Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must be!"

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

a sense that even if every scrap of a life were saved, thrown into a giant mound and then carefully sifted to extract all possible meaning, it would not add up to a life.

Le cou n'est-il pas l'endroit où finit la tête et où le corps commence? (p.148)

I know, but he must have felt it that way, that evil was an emptiness, a lack of something, not a presence.' He turned his head fast and looked at me. 'That's what desire is, isn't it? The lack of something.

Being alive is inexplicable, I thought. Consciousness itself is inexplicable. There is nothing ordinary in the world.

nonsense can also be real

Art can speak to what falls outside theory, and it can also embody felt ideas.

I've decided that mixing is a key term. It's better than suggestion, which is one-sided. It explains what people rarely talk about, because we define ourselves as isolated, closed bodies who bump up against each other but stay shut. Descartes was wrong. It isn't: I think, there I am. It's: I am because you are. That's Hegel - well, the short version.

In these philosophies of "difference," boundaries blur, category is destabilized, and hybrids are created. Grosz

Unato? tim trenuta?nim uvidima u ne?iji život, platna i materijali na njima imali su neku apstraktnu odliku, krajnju prazninu koja je izražavala bizarnost same smrtnosti, osje?aj da, ?ak i ako sa?uvamo svaku mrvicu života, nagomilamo ih na divovsku hrpu, a potom pažljivo prosijemo da izvu?emo sva mogu?a zna?enja, sve to zajedno opet ne?e sastaviti jedan život.

Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these and part of both of them, the puzzle of God. God is the greatest puzzle of all.

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.