Quotes About Philosophy

To not want to be alive is not the same thing as wanting to be dead.

Kyoya: Some say I only became more calculating but I don't care... because you lose out if you don't have fun, right?

I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men.

When asked 'Given the chance, how would you change the world ?'] It's a big question. Getting rid of religion would be a good start, wouldn't it? It seems to be causing a lot of havoc.

I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.

All life is an argument for death.

Death, according to one's belief, means either annihilation or release from the limitations of the senses, but it involves no change of character.

Bisogna affrettarsi a riderne per non dover piangere perché la vita è davvero troppo strana.

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

To deny, to believe, and to doubt absolutely -- this is for man what running is for a horse.

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason

The state of man: inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

"God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?… If you win, you win everything; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

"The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob," not of philosophers and scholars.