Quotes About Philosophy

That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp, and, like Stubb, eat him by his own light, as you may say; this seems so outlandish a thing that one must needs go a little into the history and philosophy of it.

But as the mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul

As before, the Pequod steeply leaned over towards the sperm whale's head, now, by the counterpoise of both heads, she regained her even keel; though sorely strained, you may well believe. So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight.

See that amazing lower lip, pressed by accident against the vessel's side, so as firmly to embrace the jaw. Does not this whole head seem to speak of an enormous practical resolution in facing death? This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.

Oh! how immaterial are all materials! What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts?

Who ain't a slave? Tell me that... I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way—either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.

Non di rado accade che, quando un uomo si trova contrariato in modo inconsueto e violentemente assurdo, egli cominci a nutrir dubbi sulle sue più salde convinzioni. Egli comincia, per così dire, a dubitare vagamente che, per strana che la cosa possa sembrare, la ragione e la giustizia si trovino dall'altra parte.

Quién puede trazar la línea donde termina el violeta y donde empieza el naranja en el arcoíris?

And my revulsion wasn't against your religion, but all religions. They're all more or less alike. You can't blame the human race for preferring some bright storyteller's dream or other to the black cold meaningless dark of the real universe.

Phil's a slow-thinking sort, so I usually tied him up. He's one of the few communists I've ever been able to stand. They're like the abolitionists. Their cause may be just, but their personalities are repulsive. I don't really know whether they're right or not, and I don't care.

ESCH (sumido en sus pensamientos): En sueños, la verdad camina siempre con muletas... (Da un golpe sobre la mesa.) El mundo entero camina con muletas... Un aborto que cojea.

Ah! - dice il romantico, e indossa l'abito di un sistema estraneo di valori: - Ah! Ora sono dei vostri e non sono più solo. Ah! - dice l'esteta, e indossa lo stesso abito: - io resto solo, ma questo è un bell'abito! - l'esteta nella sfera del romanticismo rappresenta il principio del male.

I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness never continues long in one stay.

La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio.

Por qué el desayuno difiere de las demás cosas, hasta el punto de que los griegos lo llamaron lo mejor del mundo?

liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion

tan pronto como la razón esté en contra de un hombre, un hombre estará en contra de la razón. [...]" (Hobbes).

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism.

The struggle itself [...] is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

scattering medicines that still pain, healed him, since he was not made to be one of the mortals.

?injenica je da sam jedinstven. Ne zanima me šta jedan ?ovek može saopštiti drugim ljudima, kao i onaj filozof ja smatram da se veštinom pisanja ništa ne može preneti. Za dosadne i proste sitnice nema mesta u mome duhu, koji je predodre?en za velike stvari.

abstractions may be indispensable. But they don't accurately reflect reality.

Gaffer Swanthold speaks truth when he saith, 'Better a crust with content than honey with a sour heart.