Quotes About Philosophy

Nous sommes fous de vouloir éterniser les sentiments: ils sont aussi passagers que nous. Les choses finissent et nous refusons de l'admettre.

La grande question dans la vie, c'est la douleur que l'on cause, et la métaphysique la plus ingénieuse ne justifie pas l'homme qui a déchiré le coeur qui l'aimait. »

ÃŽn zilele noastre, Descartes n-ar mai scrie: "Cuget, deci exist". Ar spune: "Sunt singur, deci cuget

?i?u khó kh?n nh?t không ph?i là bi?t ???c t?i sao ta l?i s?ng, mà là thoát ???c kh?i câu h?i này.

La Beauté finit en Laideur, le destin de la Jeunesse est d'être Flétrie, la Vie n'est qu'un lent Pourrissement, nous Mourons chaque Jour.

Sre?a je vrlo jednostavna stvar; treba samo preokrenuti nesre?u.

Dac? Dumnezeu exist? cu adev?rat, m? întreb ce o fi învârtit în ziua aia.

De?i?tirilemeyecek ?eyler, En az?ndan betimlenmelidir.

Iadul dureaz? o or? ?i trei sferturi. Cartea de fa?? la fel.

Sl?pošana ir m?ta par S?zifu m?sdienu versija.

Musik ist denkender Lärm.

toute vie, même nulle, est supérieure au néant, même héroïque.

E u?or s? fii un viitor mort. Mai greu e s? fii un mort prezent. Trebuie s? continui s? tr?ie?ti pân? în momentul în care nu mai tr?ie?ti.

To die is man's finest action - and what might be his worst? To be born.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Oui, la beauté ne saurait jamais nous faire oublier notre condition tragique. Il y a une beauté proprement humaine, ce feu d'esprit qui brûle, s'il brûle, au-delà du tragique.

A good description of photography necessitates that one treat it as an essence unto itself; not as an event either of the World or of philosophy, or as a syncretic sub-product of modern science and technology; that one recognize the existence, not just of a photographic art, but of an authentic photographic thought; the existence, beyond the components of technology and image production, of a certain specific relation to the real, one which knows itself as such.

NP's initial project was to serialize the standard tonality of the philosophical scale- to treat all of its pitches equally, as parameters or variables, so as to make heard a music other than the classical

Or rather, he was sad because that morning he'd understood that he'd understood nothing, because while he still understood nothing he wasn't sad at all, but now that he'd understood that he'd understood nothing he felt sad, if you follow.

Il y a une forme de légèreté et de grâce dans le simple fait d'exister, au-delà des occupations, au-delà des sentiments forts, au-delà des engagements, et c'est de cela que j'ai voulu rendre compte. De ce petit plus qui nous est donné à tous : le sel de la vie.

Realism provides only amoral observation, while Absurdism rejects even the possibility of debate.

Theoretically, the curriculum consists of the "seven liberal arts."2 But schools rarely teach all seven of the arts, and the emphasis is very unequal. These "arts" are "liberal" because their purpose is not moneymaking and because they are worthy of a free man. There are seven mainly because people are fond of the number seven, one of the keys to a numerologically ordered universe.

If nothing is sacred, then we are all left to crawl through the mud, and there is no meaning to anything.