Quotes About Philosophy

But this is the rule, and there is no way to free oneself of it: as soon as the thought has arisen, it must be followed to the very end.

A word may give me its meaning, but first it suppresses it. For me to be able to say, 'This woman' I must somehow take her flesh and blood reality away from her, cause her to be absent, annihilate her. The word gives me the being, but it gives it to me deprived of being. The word is the absence of that being, its nothingness, what is left of it when it has lost being - the very fact that it does not exist.

At the moment everything was being destroyed she had created that which was most difficult: she had not drawn something out of nothing (a meaningless act), but given to nothing, in its form of nothing, the form of something.

Living is such an absurd occupation.

Più profondamente, si è se stessi, un po' come diceva Friedich Schiller (1759-1805), l'uomo è veramente uomo quando gioca (e la donna anche).

A un certo punto c'è qualcosa che ci resiste. È quello che chiamo "inemendabilità", il carattere saliente del reale.

Per un castoro – possiamo averne una ragionevole certezza – i mutui e i divorzi non esistono, mentre le montagne e i laghi esistono eccome.

Se viceversa un filosofo dice che la cosiddetta 'verità' è una questione di potere" perché fa il filosofo invece che il mago?

Socrate, ossia colui che, morendo, ha sostenuto che c'è un nesso istitutivo tra sapere, virtù e felicità.

Evelyn: Patience is a virtue... Rick: Not right now, it isn't.

She was particularly struck by a remark of Aristotle's, that tragedy was "more philosophic" than history, inasmuch as it concerned itself with what might be, while history was concerned with merely what had been.

A man who doesn't reel on receipt of his death-warrant may yet break down when he has had time to think it over.

Come in, Noaks," said the Duke. "You have been to a lecture?" "Aristotle's Politics," nodded Noaks.

The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play. Please answer my question, to the best of your ability.

In the quadrangle of the Old Schools he glanced round at the familiar labels, blue and gold, over the iron-studded doors,—Schola Theologiae et Antiquae Philosophiae; Museum Arundelianum; Schola Musicae.

So humanising is sorrow.

Isn't that all we are? Just a brain kept alive by a complex and vulnerable machine we call the body? The

nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings

Sehen Sie«, sagte er und zuckte die Achseln, »wir haben so Erinnerungen, wir Menschen. Sie halten uns immer wieder auf; all die Jahre denkt man an irgendeinen Morgen, einen Freitag, einen Morgen mit Oliven … Sie müssen das verstehen.«

Es ist schade«, sagte ich rauchend, »daß du ein Geist bist.«

Noi nu vrem niciun fel de r?spuns, vrem doar s? uit?m întrebarea.

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.

thing about you is your belief system.

His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning.