Quotes About Philosophy

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

All time is unreedemable.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room. So how should I presume?

Because I do not hope to know again The infirm glory of the positive hour Because I do not think Because I know I shall not know The one veritable transitory power

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,/All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,/... Where is the Life we have lost in living?/Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?/Where is the knowledge we have lost in information

There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything.

My own Toryism is only intelligible on the understanding that there are no Tories in politics at all.

If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable.

Where is the wisdom? We lost in knowledge Where is the wisdom we lost in knowledge? ?????

Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy.

Welcome, Simon, to the world of those who are every day condemned to thinking and wondering and never ever knowing with certainness.

Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.

Just for once, Binabik, I want you to tell me there is an answer for something. I'm tired of thinking so much." The troll laughed. "The punishment for being born . . . no, perhaps that is too much to be calling that. The punishment for being truly alive—that is fair to say. Welcome, Simon, to the world of those who are every day condemned to thinking and wondering and never ever knowing with certainness.

The manchildren, the mortals, have many ideas of what happens after they die, and wrangle about who is right and who is wrong. These disagreements often come to bloodshed, as if they wished to dispatch messengers who could discover the answer to their dispute. Such messengers, as far as I know of mortal philosophy, never return to give their brethren the taste of truth they yearn for.

and calling down on to them all the peace of Usires God. Caught between two angry pagan armies, he was quickly killed very dead. "So," Binabik waved his stick, beating down a high tussock of grass, "a story whose philosophy is difficult, hmmm? At least for we Qanuc, who prefer both being what you call pagan, and being what I call alive.

Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared for a most amazing journey: The sages who have compassed sea and land, Their secret to search out and understand, My mind misgives me if they ever solve The scheme on which the universe is planned.

of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. History

Man enters into the ethical world through fear and not through love."—Paul Ricoeur, The Symbolism of Evil.

a remark Khaldun had made once, when Dawit returned from the battlefield against the Italians: What do you gain from it, Dawit? Must a scythe prove itself sharper than a blade of grass? Let grass grow as it will. While

Roilant caught himself, with exasperation, slipping into vacuous philosophy, a sure sign his opinion of life was at its very lowest.

Is any world quite sensible?