Quotes About Philosophy

Ama ne kadar soyut görünürlerse görünsünler, düÅŸünceler de bir dayanak noktas?na gereksinim duyarlar, yoksa kendi çevrelerinde anlams?zca dönmeye baÅŸlarlar; onlar da hiçliÄŸe katlanamaz.

But what good was this theoretical rubbish?

The truths that he finds may in the coming months or even the coming years be truths no more. He must be forever searching. Thus is born a multitude of contradictions. Now he appears an Epicurean, now a Stoic, now a sceptic.

He is only a philosopher in the manner of Socrates, whom he revered above all others because he left behind no dogma, no teachings, no law, no system, only an example: the man who seeks himself in all and who seeks all in himself.

Mi sorpresa al darme cuenta de que aquellos empujoncitos a unas figuras de un tablero eran lo mismo que mis devaneos por los espacios del pensamiento podría compararse a la de un astrónomo que a fuerza de cálculos complicados sobre un papel deduce la existencia de un nuevo planeta, y después lo ve realmente en el cielo, un astro blanco, claro, sustancial.

He makes it his task to be wholly sincere with himself, and he notes this definition of wisdom which he finds in Pindar: "True being is the beginning of a great virtue.

For you cannot know the world by just navel-gazing. This is why he reads history and studies philosophy: not to draw lessons and precepts, but to understand how other men have acted in the past, so that he can compare his own situation with theirs.

there must be a perpetual state of tension between torment and ecstasy if man is to be projected into the infinite.

Nietzsche's own thoughts gathered around him and with which he was entrapped as by an impenetrable bell glass, a solitude wherein there were no flowers or colours or music or beasts or men, a solitude whence even God was excluded, the dead and petrified solitude of some primeval world which existed long ago or may come into being aeons hence.

Montaigne's greatest pleasure is in the search, not the discovery.

Yeryüzünde hiçbir ÅŸey hiçlik kadar insan ruhuna bask? yapamaz.

Biz zavall?lar kaderimize raz? olmal?yd?k

Carlyle's axiom that the true university of these days is a good collection of books has remained valid as far as I'm concerned, and even today I am convinced that one can become an excellent philosopher, historian, philologist, lawyer, or what will you, without having attended a university or even a Gymnasium.

Dostoyevski bir y???n bilgiyi yeni bir insanl?k için feda etmiÅŸtir ve bu yeni insanl??a en derin s?rr?n?, en son formülünü, en unutulmaz sözünü söylemiÅŸtir: "Hayat? hayat?n anlam?ndan daha çok sevin.

Die zweite war, daß sie fast immer in ihrem Leben die einfachsten sind.

Montaignes ware plezier is het zoeken, niet het vinden. Hij is niet een van die filosofen die op zoek zijn naar de steen der wijzen, naar een nuttige formule. Hij wil dogma noch leer en is permanent op zijn hoede voor starre beweringen: 'Niets boud beweren, niets lichtvaardig ontkennen.

Sentí un regusto amargo en los labios. El regusto de la fugacidad. ¿Para qué vivimos, si el viento tras nuestros zapatos ya se está llevando nuestras últimas huellas?

Bize hiçbir ÅŸey yapmad?lar -sadece bizi en mutlak anlamdaki hiçliÄŸin içerisine yerleÅŸtirdiler, çünkü bilindiÄŸi gibi dünyada hiçbir ÅŸey insan ruhu üzerinde hiçlik kadar a??r bir bask? uygulayamaz.

Sentii sulle labbra un gusto amaro, il gusto della caducità: a che scopo vivere, quando il vento che ci sospinge spazza via anche l'ultima traccia del passo appena compiuto?

Yeryüzünde hiçbir ÅŸey insana hiçlik kadar bask? yapamaz

Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

Ci fu una grande battaglia di idee e alla fine non ci furono né vincitori, né vinti, né idee.

and I wish I was dead." "Well, one day you will be, and so shall I; but meanwhile we may as well behave with courage and common sense.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.