Quotes About Philosophy

When did life start being something you had to work at and not something that just is?

Thanks, but I don't need the Afterschool Special talk. Sounds like I've got, what, three or four years left? That's a fuckin' eternity.

Maybe God is nothing more than another villain—the biggest villain of them all. Maybe

Theory, recall, is the term for bad philosophy in literature departments.

we express a commitment to that which cannot be established by reason, or to that which can be established by reason but not for that reason.12

Epictetus, a Greek philosopher, once wrote, "Circumstances do not make the man. They merely reveal him to himself.

This is the basic principle that underlies most religion, psychology, philosophy, and metaphysics. This law says, "Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality.

Aristotelian

Maslow, McGregor, Herzberg, Drucker y

Una de mis historias favoritas es sobre un joven que va a un viejo filósofo y le dice: «La vida es dura». El filósofo responde: «¿En comparación con qué?».

As Victor Frankl wrote in his best selling book, Logotherapy, "The last great freedom of mankind is the freedom to choose your attitude under any set of external conditions.

One of the liabilities of being a deep thinker, Wyatt mused, was that it left him vulnerable to existential crises.

One of the liabilities of being a deep thinker...was that it left him vulnerable to existential crises.

From this ground zero, a modern meaning movement began to rise, eventually growing to include philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. If the symptoms of meaninglessness were alienation and emptiness, the balm was fulfillment and personal sense-making. The "central concept of human psychology is meaning," wrote Jerome Bruner. And the central task of every individual is to make your own meaning. There is no single formula. But

At the atomic level, matter does not even exist with certainty; it only exists as a tendency to exist.

Il Canonico rispose che lui non era affatto d'idee larghe e che, per dire il vero, questo non gli dispiaceva, perché la larghezza d'idee spesso non era altro che superficialità.

It's a nonsense to say that men should be Britons and Frenchmen and Russians first and communists and Christians and fascists afterwards, for it is only by making a philosophy and not a nation prevail that we shall every attain universal peace. That's why this war's decided nothing, really, because it was fought for national survival and not for philosophical penetration.

Non aveva mai capito perché la gente che leggeva Edgar Wallace per gusto e che riteneva che i gatti neri portassero sfortuna dovesse sentirsi offesa dalla dottrina della transustanziazione.

Communists cannot possibly do without God what Christians have failed to do with God.

Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs. A young man sits in one.

The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement, but the opposite of a great truth may be another great truth.

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine. —Sir James Jeans

one hand, there are those who openly dismiss the philosophical aspect

Philosophy is not in the business of explaining anything. Actual occasions explain what happened, not philosophy.