Quotes About Philosophy

Let's not waste time by dwelling on the unknown. But that's what thinking is

Living with my mother is like living with Winnie the Pooh. She has many adventures, getting herself into and out of trouble guilelessly, and all of these adventures are accompanied by a few lines of gentle philosophy. There's always a little bit more to learn every time you get your head stuck in a honey pot if you're my mother.

Nomi: someday you'll be gone, you'll be dust, and then even less than dust. Nothing. There's no other place to be. This world is good enough for you because it has to be. Go ahead and love it.

Treba ostati logi?an, jer bilo kako bilo, logika nikada nije nepouzdan vodi?. Istina je: bio sam prili?no sam, ali osamljenost još uvijek nije dokaz da ?ovjek nema pravo.

Mi smo vremenom prožeti, a ono tek po nama ima svoj smisao.

No?u, u intimnom, poluglasnom razgovoru sa samim sobom, nikako ne mogu zapravo logi?ki opravdati zašto se u posljednje vrijeme toliko uzrujavam zbog ljudske gluposti.

It's not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It's part of the deal we made.

Now that child reminds me of something our sages taught. When a baby comes into the world, it's hands are clenched, right? Like this? He made a fist. Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say 'The whole world is mine.' But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned the lesson. What lesson? I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. We can take nothing with us.

You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent.

Begitu kita ingin tahu bagaimana kita akan mati, berarti kita belajar tentang bagaimana kita harus hidup (hal 87, Selasa Bersama Morrie)

He wrote bite-sized philosophies about living with death's shadow: Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do; Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it; Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others; Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.

Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas. He jotted down his thoughts on yellow pads, envelopes, folders, scrap paper. He wrote bite-sized philosophies about living with death's shadow: "Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do"; "Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it"; "Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others"; "Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.

Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.

It's natural to die, he said again. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature. He smiled at the plant. We're not. Everything that gets born, dies.

We're Tuesday people," he said. Tuesday people, I repeated. Morrie smiled.

He opened his eyes. He exhaled. You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent.

Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent. - Buddhists say

The subject was the meaning of life. It was taught from experience. The teaching goes on.

He had refused fancy clothes or makeup for this interview. His philosophy was that death should to be embarrassing; he was not about to powder its nose.

philosophy was that death should not be embarrassing; he was not about to powder its nose.

The class met on Tuesdays. No books were required. The subject was the meaning of life. It was taught from experience. The teaching goes on.

If we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying, then we can finally do the really hard thing. Which is? Make peace with living.

If some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it. And I wanted to remember it for as long as I could.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.