Quotes About Philosophy

Marx was fortunate because he saw everything as if it were a fortuitous bounty.

Hi," Sam said, without looking at her. "You can watch if you want. I'm going to play until the end of this life." "That's a good philosophy," Anna said.

Always remember, mine Sadie: life is very long, unless it is not." Sadie knew this to be a tautology, but it also happened to be true.

I Am a Strange Loop, by Doug Hofstadter

Marx was a prodigious reader, and he felt like Sadie might be the kind of book that one could read many times, and always come away with something new.

You are dying. No, that came out wrong. What you meant to express was the existential grief that comes with the knowledge that all things die. You are not dying, except insofar as you have always been dying.

Hi," Sam said, without looking at her. "You can watch if you want. I'm going to play until the end of this life." "That's a good philosophy," Anna said. She concentrated on the game and tried not to hear the nearby sirens

I suppose we drink and we smoke for the same reasons it is done elsewhere. We must fill our infinite days with something.

1) all things were knowable by anyone, and (2) anything was fixable if you took the time to figure out what was broken. Sam believed these things as well.

loathe collectible books anyway. People getting all moony over particular paper carcasses. It's the ideas that matter, man.

Their happiness is not her unhappiness. Unless it is. What if there is only an equal ratio of happiness to unhappiness in the world at any given time? She should be nicer.

I loathe collectible books anyway. People getting all moony over particular paper carcasses. It's the ideas that matter, man. The words

I loathe collectible books anyway. People getting all moony over particular paper carcasses. It's the ideas that matter, man. The words," Daniel Parish says.

Jedes du ist ein Alter Ego

and art instead of God, she often complained that she'd

The studied spontaneity of Horace.

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it

I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written

I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.