Quotes About Philosophy

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought it can be filmed.

The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963

The Judeo-Christian heritage has left us with the view of a universe composed of warring opposites, which are valued as either good or evil. They cannot coexist.

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Does it matter that people and things Have words, Have names? If not, Why read any book? A litany of useless letters Detached from bone, muscle. Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement, Person Real?

Who was Confucius? His real name was Kong Qiu, and he was the extramarital child of an impoverished seventy-year-old aristocrat and his sixteen-year-old concubine. The boy was born 551 years before Christ, and half a century before Rome became a republic.

Der Mensch denkt nicht vergeblich. Kein Gedanke, auch nicht der wunderlichste, vergeht fruchtlos.

you can call human beings stellar nuclear waste.

we find nothing that gives our lives an objective meaning.

Moi qui pour mon malheur ai toujours eu une curiosité passionnée pour les choses de l'esprit...

Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

Querer jugar contra uno mismo representa, en definitiva, una paradoja tan grande como querer saltar sobre la propia sombra

je mehr sich einer begrenzt, um so mehr ist er andererseits dem Unendlichen nah; gerade solche scheinbar Weltabseitigen bauen in ihrer besonderen Materie sich termitenhaft eine merkwürdige und durchaus einmalige Abbreviatur der Welt.

playing chess against oneself is thus as paradoxical as jumping over one's own shadow.

Sen, beni asla, asla tan?mayan, bir su birikintisinin yan?ndan geçercesine yan?mdan geçip giden, bir taÅŸa basarcas?na üstüme basan, hep, ama hep yoluna devam eden ve beni sonsuz bir bekleyiÅŸ içerisinde b?rakan sen, kimsin ki benim için?

Ben kendimi, ?????n hiçbir zaman içinde kalmadan geçip gittiÄŸi camdan bir nesne gibi hissettim.

Nada se nos hizo, sólo que se nos situó dentro de la nada absoluta, porque, según es notorio, ninguna cosa del mundo ejerce tanta presión sobre el alma humana como la nada.

He is at one and the same time all and nothing, always different and yet ever the same, the Montaigne of 1550, 1560, 1570, 1580, the Montaigne of yesterday.

It is true: Montaigne achieved little else in his life aside from posing the question: "How should I live?

A life without envy, hatred and lies was not a life worth living.

Montaigne is the sworn enemy of all responsibility. He strives to dodge decisions. Solitary sage in a time of mass fanaticism, he seeks seclusion and flight.

DeÄŸerli olan her zaman için gerçeÄŸin yar?s? deÄŸil, tamam?d?r.

Death is a certain refuge, never to be feared"; "Strong diseases require strong remedies", writes Montaigne

goodness and truth have never yet succeeded in curing humanity or even a single human being.