Quotes About Philosophy

A wise man once said, it's not the despair that destroys you, it's the hope.

There is no absolute right or wrong, good or evil, but there are good manners and common decency.

It's sheer spitefulness to allow mortals to love because everybody dies but the love they cause to be in others doesn't die with them. Therefore love is the cause of the greatest sorrow therefore love is the greatest evil.

An old man I met in the slave camp told me once, always be positive. He died of gangrene, something it's hard to be positive about, and he spent his last week on earth whimpering, but I've always tried to follow his advice, even so.

I don't believe in gods, only in religion.

There's nothing quite like the scriptures for killing faith stone dead. Actually reading them and thinking about what they said evaporated my belief like spit on a hot stove.

Ah well." Gignomai turned slowly round. "It's not often commented on, but when you stop and think, mercy is the biggest injustice of them all.

the exceptionally profound is always, by definition, basic and mundane.

Isn't there something beyond pain? Isn't there something beyond determination? Isn't there something beyond the body?

Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.

If from the beginning you always believed that a ticket was only one-way, then you wouldn't have to try so vainly to cling to the sand like an oyster to a rock.

Animal smell is beyond philosophy.

Between the poles of the conscious and the unconscious, there has the mind made a swing: Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing never ceases its sway. (pg. 16)

Look upon life and death; there is no separation between them, The right hand and the left hand are one and the same. Kabîr says: "There the wise man is speechless; for this truth may never be found in Vedas or in books.

If those sweet lips, that goblet of wine, Yes, everything, ends in non-existence, Then remember, for as long as you exist, That you are only what you will be one day: Nothing. It's impossible to be less than that.

I said to Life, 'I would hear Death speak.' And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, 'You hear him now.'

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

What are we to make of a civilization which has always regarded ethics as an essential part of human life," he asked, but "which has not been able to talk about the prospect of killing almost everybody except in prudential and game-theoretical terms?

He told friends that this ancient Hindu text—"The Lord's Song"—was "the most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

Edsall insisted, "Tolstoy is the writer I most enjoy." "No, no, Dostoyevsky is superior," Oppenheimer said. "He gets to the soul and torment of man.

An inner voice tells me that this is not the true Jacob. The theory accomplishes a lot, but it does not bring us closer to the secrets of the Old One. In any case, I am convinced that He does not play dice.

Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature.