Quotes About Philosophy

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.

There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; my philosophy is kindness.

Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.

I ask myself often: "Why is it that everything changes?" And only one answer comes back to me: That is how life is. Nothing, nothing at all, has any lasting character. The Buddha said: This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

As a Tibetan saying goes: "Tomorrow or the next life—which comes first, we never know.

If everything dies and changes, then what is really true?

Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?

Frederick, is God dead?

But what we thought to be 'right,' turned out overnight to be 'wrong.' We may live another forty or fifty years, but are we ever going to be able to believe in anything again—in a 'right' that can't be altered, in a 'wrong' that isn't going to change on us? If we don't resolve this for ourselves, no amount of study is ever going to help us build conviction in anything.

We humans can spend our whole lives pondering the meaning of 'good' and 'evil,' but we will never be able to figure it out. The only thing that human beings can do is come up with a yardstick by which to measure good and evil.

Scio me nihil scire" - I know that I know nothing

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all. —Albert Camus

When Nietzsche said: 'God is dead,' he expressed a truth which is valid for the greater part of Europe". To Nietzsche's statement, Jung noted: "However it would be more correct to say: 'He has discarded our image, and where will we find him again?

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

You know how I feel about Occam's Razor. The simplest answer isn't usually the right one. Devious and unlikely is everywhere.' 'You ought to launch your own theory: Occam's Beard, you could call it.

He didn't subscribe to the view...that spirituality was a fast track to happiness. He believed the opposite was true: spiritual people suffered more than most.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.

Leave me to my own absurdity.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.