Quotes About Philosophy

for his books came suddenly before his eyes, row upon row of volumes, row upon priceless row of calf-bound Thought, of philosophy and fiction, of travel and fantasy; the stern and the ornate, the moods of gold or green, of sepia, rose, or black; the picaresque, the arabesque, the scientific – the essays, the poetry and the drama. All this, he felt, he would now re-enter. He could inhabit the world of words, with, at the back of his melancholy, a solace he had not known before.

his books came suddenly before his eyes, row upon row of volumes, row upon priceless row of calf-bound Thought, of philosophy and fiction, of travel and fantasy; the stern and the ornate, the moods of gold or green, of sepia, rose, or black; the picaresque, the arabesque, the scientific – the essays, the poetry and the drama. All this, he felt, he would now re-enter. He could inhabit the world of words, with, at the back of his melancholy, a solace he had not known before.

Oh well, bears will be bears," said Mr Brown.

I don't save lives," Zelikman said. "I just prolong their futility.

As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning?

As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning?" The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them.

Shouldn't death be the relief from the tortures of life?

Even if you don't believe in any God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.

I believe my life has a value, and i don't want to waste it thinking about clothing. I don't want to think about what i will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion?

They just posture and pontificate. Nobody tests. Nobody does field research. Nobody dares to solve the problems—because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.

G.K. Chesterton said (in a somewhat different context), "If you believe in nothing, you'll believe in anything." That

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world." ALBERT EINSTEIN

Ian Malcolm, how do you do? I do maths." He

The very concept of time travel makes no sense, since time doesn't flow. The fact that we think time passes is just an accident of our nervous systems—of the way things look to us. In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future aren't separate locations, the way New York and Paris are separate locations. And since the past isn't a location, you can't travel to it.

I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing

name. "I may not be," Cope said. "Religion explains what man cannot explain.

Do not think ahead, and be cheerful by knowing that no man lives forever.

There's no comfort, it seems, in the world of objects.

I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end. But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.

To philosophise is to learn how to die.

If you know not how to die, never trouble yourself; Nature will in a moment fully and sufficiently instruct you; she will exactly do that business for you; take you no care for it.

Ouspensky was saying that hell on earth is life as we have always lived it, and heaven on earth is breaking free of our long-standing patterns.

No hay buenas respuestas que duren para siempre.

Mi existencia es incomprensible y ridícula