Quotes About Philosophy

L'idée me vient finalement que toute consolation ne prenant pas en compte ma liberté est trompeuse, qu'elle n'est que l'image réfléchie de mon désespoir.

Wise, because wisdom is to be in love with life, whereas foolishness is to be ashamed of love

There is no such thing as truth or untruth. There is simply being, and perception.

Dwell in the darkness of thought and drink of the poison of life.

A true magus understands he has to dance on both sides of the coin. Utter goodness is as bad as pure evil.

Are you saying that he deserves to die?' I asked, chilled. 'We all deserve to die,' he answered.

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

That's the trouble with science. It has to explain beauty. It can't just let it be.

Apparently I can't prove the chair I'm sitting on exists, because I only think it exists because my bum tells me it does and I can't empirically trust my bum to tell the truth...' 'That what it says?' 'Far as I can tell, one of the great philosophical minds of the eighteenth century thinks my arse is a liar.

I could insult him for his pedestrian intelligence and whacky ideas, but even I know that there is a bit more to life than intellect.

Solutions to problems never trespass into anything of real value.

In Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, Jennifer Burns described how Rand toward the end of her life "had one last word of warning to issue. Referring to the upcoming Republican primaries she wrote, 'I urge you, as emphatically as I can, not to support the candidacy of Ronald Reagan.' Reagan was a conservative in 'the worst sense of the word,' she told her readers.

a time when many great thinkers and philosophers emerged, all writing and debating their ideas. Most interestingly, people actually liked to listen to them! These scholars were also teachers or gurus and had schools called ashramas or gurukulas, where they taught students. Towns even had special assembly halls for debates called kautuhala shalas, that is, halls for arousing curiosity!

Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

When I was twelve years old I conjured up for myself a marvelous trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My deduction was that God, thinking himself, created the second person of the godhead, but that to be able to think himself he had to think his opposite, and thus had to create it.—That is how I began to philosophize.

If you have your why? in life, you can get along with almost any how? People don't strive for happiness, only the English do.

To be alone, and without gods, this—this it is, is Death," Hölderlin puts into Empedocles's mouth in the play and maybe in this we can trace the first whisper of the gigantic tragedy that Nietzsche would articulate in the death of God.

Are we happy? I am God, I have created this parody]

I believed in words, even if they only masked the uncertainty of time passing.

He neither feared to die nor refused to live.

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

We hold this myth to be potential Not self-evident but equational Another Dimension Of another kind of Living Life

It ain't necessarily so that it ain't necessarily so.

entailing difficult technical philosophical terms are so different from those of European thought, that they can hardly ever be accurately translated.