Quotes About Philosophy

I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish. - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago

Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.

While the music played a whole eternity went by like life in a novel

I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's speciality seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish.

Now, as never before, it was clear to him that art is always, ceaselessly, occupied with two things. It constantly reflects on death and thereby constantly creates life.

Concordo com o senhor até certo ponto, Nil Feoktístovitch. Mas Tolstói diz que quanto mais o homem se entrega à beleza, mais se afasta do bem. — E o senhor pensa o contrário? Que a beleza salvará o mundo? Acredita em mistérios e coisas semelhantes, em Rózanov e Dostoiévski?

Le plus clair de mon temps, dit Colin, je le passe à l'obscurcir. - Pourquoi? demanda plus bas le directeur. - Parce que la lumière me gène, dit Colin.

L'uso del condizionale osservò Giacomorto è spesso una confessione di impotenza - o di vanità.

Le plus clair de mon temps, je le passe à l'obscurcir, parce que la lumière me gêne.

Una cosa inutile come la sofferenza non può dare diritti a nessuno su niente.

I'm Catholic In My Complications And Buddhist In My Aspirations' ~George O'dowd

you should learn that life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.

Religions were supposed to represent tolerance. But just like everything else in life, Harvarth had learned, it wasn't necessarily the philosophy that was flawed, but rather the human beings who were trying to interpret it.

But just like everything else in life, Harvath had learned, it wasn't necessarily the philosophy that was flawed, but rather the human beings who were trying to interpret it.

Ockham's razor. The simplest explanation was usually correct. They

Is this what it all comes to? I wondered. Is this how it is supposed to turn out? You have your accidents, your broken bones and diseases, and then there is a strange hairiness that overtakes you and pretty soon you're dead, put in a wooden box and buried under a pile of dirt?

I positively opened my eyes at this new development. Here was my own pet lunatic - the most pronounced of his type that I had ever met with - talking elemental philosophy, and with the manner of a polished gentleman.

He is a seemingly arbitrary man, but this is because he knows what he is talking about better than anyone else. He is a philosopher and a metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day; and he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind.

Timey-Wimey: Steven Moffat, Blink and J. W. Dunne's theories of Time'

One of my teachers told me I was a nihilist. He meant it as an insult but I took it as a compliment.

I'm your mind, it claims. You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses

I can't come up with reassuring answers to the terrible questions they raise. Don't ask me those questions! Don't ask me what life means or how nothing feels real, how everything is coated with gelatin and shining like oil in the sun.

I cannot say that I know Brahman fully. Nor can I say that I know him not.... Nor do I know that I know him not.

The Buddha denied the existence of persisting selves. At the end of life, the self may dissolve into eternity like salt in the ocean. To some, this might seem distressing. But to lose the lonely self in the ocean of eternity could also be a release, an enlightenment, as the mystics promise.