Quotes About Philosophy

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge.

I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.

You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.

I love colors... as much as I love concepts.

Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.

For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.

Hindu is a geographical identity, or at the most a cultural one - not a religion. There is no set of beliefs that everyone has to adhere to.

This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.

Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.

I love art. But I love it because it is the expression of a living philosophy. It's the leftovers. Art is what's left over from life.

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate and soul are two names for the same principle.

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

We are dominated on this planet by a fear-based rather than a love-based thought system.

She let herself love me for three minutes. Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer. Probably not, I reply. But maybe they last long enough.

Love the horses, but don't ride on them! Riding the horses is a culture, a wrong culture!

To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!