Quotes About Philosophy

Khi b?t ??u Ä'i tìm nh?ng l?i bi?n há»™, ng??i ta s? gi? mãi cái thái Ä'á»™ Ä'ó su?t c? ??i

Considering the sense of powerlessness that such a state of affairs would bring about, to have people floating in a pool of mysterious question marks seems like a minor sin.

Are you prepared to die?" "I am half dead already," Nimit said as if stating the obvious.

Sometimes, in this multifaceted world of ours, inconsistency can be more eloquent than consistency.

I may have nothing inside me, but what would something be?

perhaps our lives are merely decorative, expendable items, a burst of fleeting color and nothing more.

I don't know, but does it matter?

The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

Disfruto de la vida a mi manera. Pero en los últimos tiempos, no dejo de preguntarme que demonios soy. Y bastante seriamente.

What would be the meaning of a world that did not change when an Idea was extinguished? Can an Idea be so insignificant?

And probably is a word whose weight is incalculable.

Simplemente, hazte a la idea, me digo. En este caso, pensar no sirve de nada. Nada de todo esto está en tus manos. Lo veas como lo veas, no puedes resistirte. Se ha decidido en otra parte.

Whether it's right or wrong, I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.

By living our lives, we nurture death.

As he watched his father, Tengo started to have doubts about the difference between a person being alive and being dead. Maybe there really wasn't much of a difference to begin with, he though, maybe we just decided, for convenience's sake, to insist on a difference.

Am I happy? If you asked me this, I'd have to say, 'Yeah, I guess.' Because dreams are, after all, just that: dreams.

For it is just as sinful from the standpoint of nature and of truth to be above oneself as to be below oneself.

Metaphysics is never more than semantic pleasantries anyway.

He is considering aspects of the interrelationship of thought and action. Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness, a story. - Tolstoy

To tell the truth, I don't really understand the causes behind my runner's blues. Or why now it's beginning to fade. It's too early to explain it well. Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about it is this: That's life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what's going on. Like taxes, the tide rising and falling, John Lennon's death, and miscalls by referees at the World Cup.

Whether you take a doughnut hole as blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such strangely shaped lives? Wouldn't our genetic purpose—to transmit DNA—be served just as well if we lived simple lives, not bothering our heads with a lot of extraneous thoughts, devoted entirely to preserving life and procreating? Did it benefit the genes in any way for us to lead such intricately warped, even bizarre, lives?

But there's such a thing as a way of living that's guided by the way a person's going to die.