Quotes About Philosophy

I feel grateful to the Milesian wench who, seeing the philosopher Thales continually spending his time in contemplation of the heavenly vault and always keeping his eyes raised upward, put something in his way to make him stumble, to warn him that it would be time to amuse his thoughts with things in the clouds when he had seen to those at his feet. Indeed she gave him or her good counsel, to look rather to himself than to the sky. —Michel de Montaigne

We must recognize, however, that intrinsic value is an elusive concept.

As the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard noted, life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards. Looking back, you can always see exactly when you should have bought and sold your stocks. But don't let that fool you into thinking you can see, in real time, just when to get in and out.

the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard noted, life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards.

One might even say that he had the last word. Derrida had criticized him for being too Christian. And Nancy replied to Derrida that he was too rabbinic.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

He wanted to improve the world, while I did not believe and never have believed that we can improve the world, just merely survive as it slides into chaos.

Hengall the Warrior hated war. The business of life, he liked to say, is to plant grain, not blades.

Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.

I envy your Christian God. He is three and He is one, He is dead and He is alive, He is everywhere and He is nowhere, and He demands that you worship Him, but claims nothing else is worthy of worship. There's room in those contradictions for a man to believe in anything or nothing, but

Who invented my life?

If Joan was mad, all Christendom was mad too; for people who believe devoutly in the existence of celestial personages are every whit as mad as the people who think they see them. Luther, when he threw his inkhorn at the devil, was no more mad than any other Augustinian monk: he had a more vivid imagination, and hd perhaps eaten and slept less: that was all.

La mort était le meilleur remède contre tous les petits maux de l'existence.

il y a toute cette autre pensée de la guerre, non pas virile, exaltante, source de grandeur ou d'accomplissement de soi, mais tout simplement nécessaire car l'alternative à cette guerre ce ne serait pas la paix mais l'enfer...(ch. 5 La nostalgie de la guerre)

A time is coming that is no longer the time that emerged from the death of communism, from the triumph of liberal values, and from the pronounced "end of history," an ending to which I never subscribed but that was beginning to take on a truly sinister face.

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

Learn then, my son, that death is a benefit to all men: it is the night of that restless day we call by the name of life.

A number of the keepers of knowledge, myself included, put little store in asceticism. How can the spirit soar freely if we keep our bodies in chains?

Philosophy does not concern itself with children. It leaves them to pedagogy. ??????? ?? ???? ???????? ? ???? ?????? ??? ??? ??????? .

Weil Glück nur stimmt, wenn es ewig hält? Weil schmerzlich nur enden kann, was schmerzlich gewesen ist, unbewusst und unerkannt? Aber was ist ein unbewusster und unerkannter Schmerz?

Philosophy has forgotten about children

Que história triste, pensei durante muito tempo. Não que eu pense agora que ela é feliz. Mas penso que é verdadeira e, diante disso, perguntar se é triste ou feliz é algo que não faz sentido.

Aber gibt es zu spät nicht, gibt es nur spät, und ist spät allemal besser als nie? Ich weiß es nicht.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.