Quotes About Philosophy

Never worry about what may happen tomorrow, for in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, it won't. And don't take things too seriously, for very few things are worth it.

As if any of us could bear to live in a world of unadulterated truth!

No doubt you thought I was dead. I sometimes think I am myself.

We can never make sense of death,' I said. 'It doesn't obey any laws or follow any rules. Death is an intractable anarchist.

Vi brukade prata så när vi var unga, Sten och jag. Om döden som något som man skulle hantera som en part i en duell. Även om utgången var given kunde man trötta ut döden så att den bara hade krafter nog att utdela ett sista hugg. Det var så vi bestämde att döden skulle bli för oss båda, nåt man skulle klara av så att det gick bra.

He was religious, but had refrained from allowing his religious ideals to be obscured by a god.

Ihminen voi olla kuollut, vaikka elää, ja olla elossa, vaikka onkin kuollut.

Il n'y a pas de barrière substantielle entre l'inorganique et le vivant, ni entre le vivant non humain et l'humain.

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

The universe is a machine for the making of Gods.

Time is invention and nothing else.

The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful...

What philosophy has lacked most of all is precision.

That diversion of life towards mechanism is the real cause of laughter

We seem to have a fear of empty spaces. The philosopher Spinoza called this a horror vacui. We want to fill up what is empty. Our lives stay very full. And when we are not blinded by busyness, we fill our inner space with guilt about things of the past or worries about things to come.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.

To a philosopher all news is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers.

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business.

We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life.