Quotes About Philosophy

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary

Omul nu este capabil sa vada nici nimicul din care provine, nici infinitul care-l impresoara.

Porque, finalmente, ¿qué es el hombre en la naturaleza? Una nada frente al infinito, un todo frente a la nada, un medio entre nada y todo. Infinitamente alejado de comprender los extremos, el fin de las cosas y su principio le están invenciblemente ocultos en un secreto impenetrable, igualmente incapaz de ver la nada de dónde ha sido sacado y el infinito en que se halla sumido

One of these Roman senators says to the other: Don't you actually believe in the gods? The second senator replies: "Privately I believe in none of them; publicly I believe in them all.

I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

People talk about egos as if it were objects.

Philosophical dogma doesn't interest me.

And songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some different republic, some liberated republic.

To understand you know too soon There is no sense in trying

Semantics and labels could drive you crazy.

The handmade blade, the child's balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon To understand you know too soon There's no sense in trying.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature cannot touch with decay

It was like he'd been born and raised on Walden Pond where everything was hunky-dory, and I'd come out of the dark demonic woods, same forest, just a different way of looking at things.

I don't know my why the number 3 is more metaphysically powerful than the number 2, but it is.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind. The answer is blowing in the wind

Mattis had a general operating philosophy which he articulated many times over the years: "You don't always control your circumstances, but you can control your response.

Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air; my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite.

Siamo il nostro ricordo, Siamo museo immaginario di mutevoli forme, Mucchio di specchi rotti. Cambridge da Elogio dell'ombra

En todas las ficciones, cada vez que un hombre se enfrenta con diversas alternativas, opta por una y elimina las otras; en la del casi inextricable Ts'ui Pên, opta simultáneamente por todas. Crea, así, diversos porvenires, diversos tiempos, que también proliferan y se bifurcan.

But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world? = MEETING =