Quotes About Philosophy

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Not the kind of person, who believes that it is best to believe "what happened, happened as it should happen" when things don't come as expected.

someone asked: What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?and i said(object): i give up..!!!

Language and reality are kept strictly apart—reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn't care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn't.

A mere love of wisdom is often enough to make oneself wiser.

Not the kind of person, who believes that it is best to believe, that what happened, happened as it should happen when things don't come as expected.

True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.

Judaism regards evil as a contingent to a prior and more basic good

The Arabian scholar and mystic, Ibn Sina (980 - 1037), declared that 'romantic love (al'-ishaq) is not peculiar to the human species but permeates all things, heavenly, elemental, vegetable and mineral, and its sense is neither perceived nor known; it is rendered even more obscure by the explanations made to account for it.

Arta de a divaga – È™i a r?mâne totuÈ™i în veÈ™nicie – mi se pare un secret pe care majoritatea modernilor l-au uitat

The more a consciousness is awakened, the more it transcends its own historicity...

One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality and therefore forgets or despises eternity.

Es wäre entsetzlich, glauben zu müssen, daß in diesem ganzen so harmonishen, vollkommenen und sich selbst immer gleichbleibenden Kosmos nur die menschliche Existenz ein Speil des Zufalls und nur das Schicksal des Menschen völlig sinnlos sei.

To be human is to seek for meaning…

Nu poÅ£i r?mâne niciodat? cu o singur? prezen??, nu te poÅ£i d?rui niciodat? unui singur lucru. Firea asta omeneasc? este atât de fundamental tragic? încât te cheam? necontenit în cel puÅ£in dou? direcÅ£ii, paralele dac? nu opuse.

The 'terror of history,' for me, is the feeling experienced by a man who is no longer religious, who therefore has no hope of finding any ultimate meaning in the drama of history, and who must undergo the crimes of history without grasping the meaning of them.

Alchemy was not an embryonic chemistry; it was a discipline bound up with a different system of significances and pursuing a different end.

Myth expresses in action and drama what metaphysics and theology define dialectically.

nimeni n-a încercat, înc?, s? treac? peste obsesia "înÈ›elegerii" vieÈ›ii ca s? colaboreze cu ea; cel puÈ›in, nimeni în Europa

She says isn't it funny how every second, every minute, every day, month, year, is accounted for, capable of being named—when time, or life, is so unwieldy, so intangible and slippery? This makes her feel compassion toward the people who invented the concept of "telling time." How hopeful, she says. How beautifully futile. How perfectly human.

She says isn't it funny how every second, every minute, every day, month, year, is accounted for, capable of being named—when time, or life, is so unwieldy, so intangible and slippery?

She says isn't it funny how every second, every minute, every day, month, year, is accounted for, capable of being named - when time, or life, is so unwieldy, so intangible and slippery? This makes her feel compassion towards the people who invented the concept of telling time. How hopeful, she says. How beautifully futile. How perfectly human.

Em recorda el que va dir Montaigne: «No hi ha res que es cregui amb tanta fermesa com el que es coneix menys».

De l'única cosa de què podem estar segurs és que el temps existeix, sí o no? Perquè va desapareixent. I una cosa que no existeix no desapareix.