Quotes About Philosophy

Se io è presente in me non contano più né Dio né diavolo.

And who are the true philosophers? Those who love the sight of truth.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

In what way is a lobster more ridiculous than a dog, a cat, a gazelle, a lion, or any other animal you take for a walk? I'm fond of lobsters. They're peaceful, serious, know the secrets of the deep, don't bark, and don't invade our privacy like dogs.

l'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues...? My imagination gave me infinite delight. In recovering what men call reason, do I have to regret the loss of these joys?...

Hat?ralamak, güzel bir kelime, var olup olmad???n? bilmiyorum, hat?ralar? olmak anlam?na geliyor.

Gerçek dinin ölüm üzerine bir meditasyon de?il, hayat üzerine bir meditasyon olmas? gerekti?ini (oradan) ö?rendim.

Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.

Socrates. The whole Socratic problematics of 'to know' (to think you know, to know that you do not know, to know that it is possible to know or that it is possible to try to know, etc.), on which ultimately depends the way we choose our lives, seemed to Dragomir to be the supreme enigma of philosophy, and the thing to which it was worth dedicating your life.

Pesimismul nu este o viziune asupra lumii, ci ocuparea unei pozi?ii strategice în fa?a imprevizibilului.

Nici un cuvânt nu a acoperit atât de bine ca "religie" dubla semantic? a lui "pharmakon": leac ?i otrav?.

Credin?a nu este, nu a fost ?i nu va fi niciodat? o virtute.

L-am intrebat de ce citeste la nesfarsit pe marii ganditori ai lumii devreme ce nu vrea sa publice nimic? "Pentru ca nu vreau decat sa inteleg. Nu vreau sa mor bou." a fost raspunsul. Cei mai multi dintre noi traim fara sa fi inteles nimic. Sau, mai rau inca, fara sa ne fi propus sa intelegem ceva.

Exemplarele "f?r? de pereche" ale omenirii, asemni lui Moise, Siddartha, Confucius, Socrate sau Isus, care f?cuser? din comandamentul "F? ca mine!" calea de urmat, erau, prin chiar natura lor excep?ional?, neimitabile. Toate preceptele lor au ridicat prea sus ?tacheta de om.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

I am beyond Right and Left, just as I am beyond good and evil… I am a man devoted to life, not to formulas.

I am a school teacher doing life and death sums.

To Marx, it seemed foolish not to love as many things as you could.

There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.

It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.

Time was mathematically explicable; it was the heart—the part of the brain represented by the heart—that was the mystery.

I do not believe in God. I have no religion. But this to me is as close to a church as I have known in this life. It is a holy place. With bookstores like this, I feel confident in saying that there will be a book business for a very long time.