Quotes About Philosophy

Omul care se dedic? ideilor nu este uman.

Perché io mi posso permettere quel lusso di essere abbandonato, anche se io abbandonato non lo sono mai, io sono soltanto solo per poter vivere in una solitudine popolata di pensieri, perché io sono un po' uno spaccone dell'infinito e dell'eternità e l'infinito e l'eternità forse hanno un debole per le persone come me.

to be ignorant of "either letters or swimming," Plato declared, was to lack a proper education.

So what you're left with is: either Christ was who He said He was—the Messiah—or a complete nutcase. I mean, we're talking nutcase on the level of Charles Manson. - Bono on whether Jesus was Son of God was far-fetched.

Education is not a thing apart from life—not a "system," nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.

Education is not a thing apart from life—not a "system," nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.

There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

Philosophy is the preparation for death - for leaving the cave of earthly, corporeal existence. And the preparation for death is a lonely and quiet activity - it is the activity of contemplation.

Augustine said he wept more for the death of Dido than he did for the death of his own saviour. What about Book Four, the best book of the best poem of the best poet?

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

Le plus clair de mon temps je le passe à l'obscurcir.

Je passe le plus clair de mon temps à l'obscurcir parce que la lumière me gêne

Was wäre, wenn wir die Annahme explizit machten und konkretisieren müssten, dass alle ernst zu nehmende Kunst und Literatur, und nicht nur die Musik, auf die Nietzsche diesen Begriff anwendet, ein opus metaphysicum ist?

The poet's is the highest type of character: other men dwell in the conventional--he chiefly abides in the universal.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, Doubt (called "the father of inventions" by Galileo), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

Only the optimist looks wisely on life. Though the actual world is not to his liking, it is the happiness of the optimist to carry a nobler in his thought.

The wise build their doctrines--theological and philosophical--upon a basis of probabilities, never upon the foundation of absolute certainty.

By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.

We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

The ultimate detachment includes detachment even from the ideal of detachment. This is the kind of thing that can make you lose your mind … and come to your senses. The

Galen went so far as to assert that no one could be a good doctor unless they were also a philosopher, and he prided himself, with justification, on his own philosophical ability.

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

difference in kind between empirical questions characteristic of science and philosophical questions about the fact of existence itself (a distinction lost on those who think that the universe as a whole, or matter-energy, or anything else that exists, might adequately explain its own being).135

It was not something called "religion" distinguished from the rest of life, but rather all of life lived in a certain way.