Quotes About Philosophy

Selon la méthode humaine bien connue : je me guérissais de la terre en me fabriquant un ciel ; je l'appelais néant.

It is not things that trouble us," as Epictetus said, "but our judgment about things

From the point of view of the imminence of death, one thing counts, and one alone: to strive always to have the essential rules of life present in one's mind, and to keep placing oneself in the fundamental disposition of the philosopher, which consists essentially in controlling one's inner discourse, in doing only that which is of benefit to the human community, and in accepting the events brought to us by the course of the Nature of the All.

Podríamos decir, además, que hay en la humanidad un estoicismo universal, quiero decir con ello que la actitud que llamamos «estoica» es una de las posibilidades permanentes y fundamentales del ser humano, cuando busca la sabiduría.

Entre el estoicismo y Nietzsche se abre un abismo. Mientras que el «sí» estoico es consentimiento a la racionalidad del mundo, la afirmación dionisíaca de la existencia de la que habla Nietzsche es un «sí» dado a la irracionalidad, a la crueldad ciega de la vida, a la voluntad de poder más allá del bien y del mal

Se habla a sí mismo, pero tenemos la impresión de que se dirige a cada uno de entre nosotros.

I am not a believer in god nor do I visit temple.

I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It's the imagining of the movement or of the gesture that makes the beauty in this case.

A vendor selling coconuts on the road is a philosopher. He will have ideas on politics, economics, history, sports. This has saved India. The fact that the common Indian is a thinker is vital.

Truth is about propositions. When it comes to determining truth, it is vital to understand the methods used by individuals in asserting propositions.

Sanskrit language and the subjects in Sanskrit are both vital alike.

Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.

To provide background and physical description and all the rest is of course vital to fiction, but vital only insofar as such detail is in the service of a richly imagined story, rather than in the service of good botany or good philosophy or good geography.

I'm not a big believer in vitamins and all that stuff.

I don't remember much about the specifics of the economics courses that I majored in - I apparently internalized the key concepts - but I still remember vividly the thrill of reading 'Don Quixote,' Epictetus, 'The Aeneid,' 'King Lear' and 'Candide,' and how contemporary the stories and ideas in these old and ancient texts struck me.

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

I've always taken the view that works of art are not just things that we enjoy. They can convey truths about the world more vividly and to greater effect than ordinary philosophical prose can because they don't just deal in ideas but show the emotional reality of them.

I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.

I still believe that the voice as well as the body express a song together - that's my philosophy of performing a song.

I tried to fortify myself with the best nonfiction and fiction I could lay my hands on, from the essays of James Baldwin and Joan Didion, to the stories and novels of Ralph Ellison, Roberto Bolano and Celine. Distinctive voices like these were a source of constant nourishment on all range of matters, from punctuation to philosophy.

Real or not, when a person denies God, they often try and fill that higher power void with something else.

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.