Quotes About Philosophy

One of the problems for contemporary Western people is that Buddha's attitude toward rebirth is entirely different from ours. We want to live forever. Buddha and his followers did not. To him and to the audience he spoke to, rebirth was not a good thing.

I believe in Darwin and God together.

At that moment, as I looked this man in the eye, I was reminded of Hanlon's razor, a philosophical notion that states one should never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. It occurred to me just then that, conversely, one ought never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by malice.

No his mind is not for rent To any god or government Always hopeful, yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating... The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which the thinker can surrender his thought to that system and follow it, he is in a sense participating in that which is timeless or eternal.

Belief?" "Yes," Sazed said. "Tell me, Mistress. What is it that you believe?" Vin frowned. "What kind of question is that?" "The most important kind, I think.

And don't waste time worshipping Harmony. Doing good was the worship.

Was he happy? He wasn't sad. For now, he'd accept "not sad.

somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

I was not meant to be an atheist.

Doesn't that bother you?" Kaladin asked. "That you might be a creation of human perception?" "You're a creation of your parents. Who cares how we were born? I can think. That's good enough.

History, by definition, cannot be experienced directly. As it is happening, it is the present, and that is philosophy's realm.

She felt less like a mere human being, and more like a human who was merely being.

Let the Vorin believe as they wish—the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.

XinWey's Doctrine states that the most essential morality of mankind is to create the greatest amount of happiness among the greatest number of people while using the least amount of resources.

Could a man both believe, and not believe, at the same time?

He was a creature who knew three hundred religions, yet had faith in none of them. So

I cannot miss my own existence—by definition. So why would I fear it?

It might be religion, but it still has to make sense.

An existence of agony is better than no existence at all

Elend smiled, recognizing the reference. Trentison's Supplying in Scale. A few years earlier, he would have agreed with Yomen, and the two would probably have spent the afternoon discussing the philosophy of leadership in Yomen's palace. However, Elend had learned things in the last few years that he simply hadn't been able to get form his studies.

Inadecuado? - repitió Patrón-. ¿Como... dividir por cero, por ejemplo?

How did men believe in something that preached love on one hand, yet taught destruction of unbelievers on the other?