Quotes About Philosophy

I do not know," said Dr Quick, "It is a blow to my vanity to consider the possibility that I am nothing but a bundle of thoughts, feelings and memories, given life by somebody else's mind. But then again, so is a book.

No, from what you say your father was an atheist, an out-and-out unbeliever. Atheism will see your head spiked on a church spire just as soon as Birdcatchery." Mosca was silent for a few moments. "But, Mr. Clent," she said at last, "what if he was right? What if it's true?

In the search for understanding and awakening we are drawn to those teachings that convey the deepest wisdom with the greatest beauty.

Del pasado al futuro sólo hay un paso. Digan lo que digan los maestros de zen, lo que no existe es el presente.

IKI ?? = VIDA GAI ?? = VALER LA PENA

Te has parado alguna vez a contar las olas? —me preguntó de repente. —¿Contar las olas? No. ¡Vaya absurdidad! ¿Qué sentido tiene contar algo que no termina nunca? —Tampoco el tiempo termina nunca y no dejamos de contarlo.

Entonces, ¿usted por qué sigue viviendo?».

Los budistas tienen una fórmula para la felicidad que va en sentido contrario: FELICIDAD = REALIDAD – DESEOS

La única situación en la que no se tienen problemas ni incertidumbres se da cuando estás muerto.

A?açtan dü?mek üzere olan bir yaprak çok ?airanedir. Çünkü ya?am?n özünü gözler önüne serer. Yaln?zca kaybedebilece?imiz ?eyleri severiz.

This integrated approach to painting, philosophy, and science lay at the heart of Leonardo's project. And yet we find it easier to simply marvel at the work of "his hand" than to understand this work as the lost way of comprehending the world that it in fact is.

Life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time, and you'll have the time of your life!

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.

From the ghetto to the mansion, from community leader to prisoner on death row, man wonders if there is a God. And if there is, what is He like? Whatever period of history we study, whatever culture we examine, if we look back in time we see all peoples, primitive or modern, acknowledging some kind of deity. Some people give up the pursuit of God in frustration, calling themselves "atheists" or "agnostics," professing to be irreligious.

Many evidences and arguments suggest God's existence, yet the plain truth is that God cannot be proved by intellectual arguments alone. If the human mind could fully prove God, He would be no greater than the mind that proves Him!

We have glamorized vice and minimized virtue. We have played down gentleness, manners, and morals—while we have played up rudeness, savagery, and vice . . . and the philosophy of "might is right.

The world by its advertisements, its conversation, and its philosophy is engaged in a gigantic brainwashing task . . . The Christian is beset by secular and worldly propaganda.

If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.

Satan] has hundreds of agents writing pornographic literature and producing sex movies to pollute [the mind]. He has intellectuals in high positions teaching a hedonistic and permissive philosophy . . .They lack an anchor for their real self.

My visits to Hungary over the past twelve years absolutely fixed my conviction that God's Holy Spirit was releasing a spiritual force in that part of the world that was bound to challenge the atheistic philosophy that had dominated nations in that region for decades.

At the end of his life Buddha said: "I am still searching for truth." This statement could be made by countless thousands of scientists, philosophers, and religious leaders throughout all history. However, Jesus Christ made the astounding claim: I am . . . the truth" [John 14:6]. He is the embodiment of all truth. The only answer to man's search is found in Him.

It doesn't matter about money having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.