Quotes About Philosophy

Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.

Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.

In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.

If there is a "problem of evil", there is also a "problem of good.

Laughing, he said, "Cancer or Islam—which is the greater affliction?

The flow of the river is ceaseless; and its water is never the same. The foam that floats in the pools Now gathering, now vanishing Never lasts long. So it is with man and all his dwelling places on this earth.

The flowing river never stops and yet the water never stays the same. Foam floats upon the pools, scattering, re-forming, never lingering long. So it is with man and all his dwelling places here on earth

Because right and wrong are societo-religious creations. They have no basis in reality.

Happiness and misery are two sides of the very same coin. To seek one is to seek the other.

I came to philosophy first through Plato. I was very interested in Plato, the person and his works. [The] Republic is a much larger work. I was fascinated particularly by his Symposium. It is a beautiful work with Plato's signature dialogues and the speech on Socrates, Aristophanes and others. I read the history of western philosophy and eventually moved to Indian philosophy.

We had to write a lot of essays in school. I had a very good teacher who taught us English, V. Siddharthacharry. I enjoyed the early process of learning to structure my essays. When I came home after finishing school at eighteen, I started writing extensively. I liked to be meticulous. Initially, I read a lot on western philosophy but also made notes on the administration and constitutions of different nations and civilizations.

The most beautiful paintings in existence today are the ones which were not painted by anyone.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds.

I don't think anyone flies into space without some form of fundamental introspection about what life is about.

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

I really like investigating the things that make us human.

iphone therefore I am.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.

Religion is an irrational construct.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

I've actually read that isolation is the enemy, so why do that to myself?