Quotes About Philosophy

feelings bore me. is that a crime

LAST NIGHT I lay awake for a long time, a really good "think" for a change.

Jon, larger and more gentle, moved slowly, spoke seldom and seemed to have burdened with the responsibility of pondering the world's imponderables.

What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.

But I intend to enjoy the weeks I have left with you to the fullest. Because I know from my study of the philosophy of time, whatever is going to happen in the future is already unavoidable.

What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave so make it short. -- Mitch Hertzog's voice mail message.

C'est la vie

And I think What does it matter that it is not a linear equation if any variable is raised to a power? We're all just going to die anyway.

What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?

We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I think, is a different thing entirely, difficult for anyone but the historians and the gods to judge.

Relius lay alone with his thoughts. What kind of man, he wondered, referred to himself as "safely dead"?

He shrugged. We all spend our time under the sign of the idiot, he said, and the matter seemed settled, at least as far as he was concerned.

God is not good, or else he could do better.

Pensa sem cessar que és homem, isto é, o vivente mais sujeito aos caprichos da sorte.

There was a library and it is ashes. Let its long length assemble. Than its stone walls its paper walls are thicker; armoured with learning, with philosophy, with poetry that drifts or dances clamped though it is in midnight. Shielded with flax and calfskin and a cold weight of ink, there broods the ghost of Sepulchrave, the melancholy Earl, seventy-sixth lord of half-light.

An anecdote in which Kant captures himself in pithy fashion: [Kant's] Famulus, a theologian who was unable to connect philosophy to theology, once asked Kant for advice as to what he should read on the subject. Kant: Read travel literature. Famulus: In dogmatic philosophy, there are things I do not understand. Kant: Read travel literature. Walter Benjamin, 'Unknown Anecdotes about Kant', GS

Only dialectical images are genuine images (that is, not archaic); and the place where one encounters them is language.

whenever a single woman over 40 brings up the topic of love, again and again the assumption, rooted in sexist thinking, is that she is 'desperate' for a man. No one thinks she is simply passionately intellectually interested in the subject matter. No one thinks she is rigorously engaged in a philosophical undertaking wherein she is endeavoring to understand the metaphysical meaning of love in everyday life. No, she is just seen as on the road to 'fatal attraction.

We must seet a value in life that is above and beyond profit motives.

Everything we do in life is rooted in theory.

Krishna: "The wise grieve not for those who live; and they grieve not for those who die—for life and death shall pass away.

If we can just tone down the rhetoric and discuss things like rational human beings, applying justice equally and not based on some political philosophy, we will validate that phrase at the end of our Pledge of Allegiance, which advocates "justice for all.

si Dios no existe, todo nos está permitido».

There is no room in this philosophy for a middle ground, or a series of gradations, between the passive and aggressive status. Many