Quotes About Philosophy

Theists and atheists are equally religious.

What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning.

The world isn't beautiful, therefore it is.

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The World is not beautiful, therefore it is.

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The world is not beautiful: And that, in a way, lends it a sort of beauty.

How do I die?" "That's simple! You just live. All living creatures die eventually." "I see... I have to live... until I figure out how to die..." "That's right. Just keep going, and your life will end before you know it. That's when death happens.

Why do we believe in things we cannot see?

Nothing is important...so everything is important.

I'm not sure that pasteurized thinking is rich enough in intellectual vitamins

Life was, in fact, cheap. If life was such a glorious, magnificent, wonderful thing, then it wouldn't be so easy to take it away. If life was a great gift, then he wouldn't be able to kill a fellow human being with one hand...

The greatest fallacy: looking continually for an answer in things that are unanswerable.

The indomitable Cox may have been the only member of the crew to remain calm—"it being a certain truth that those who are born to be hang'd shall never be drown'd," as he explained.

When you have all, why torment the depths?

The real quality of existence lies in our thoughts, which wear no silks and taste no ice creams.

It was a little like having religion. The world was a more interesting place if there was more to it than met the eye.

Nietzsche wrote that 'to shame a man is to kill him'.

Works for Paul Auster, so who am I to argue?

In the interview, Roger reflected how the German philosopher Nietzsche said a man can undergo torture if he knows the why of his life. But I, here at Dachau, learned something far greater. I learned to know the Who of my life. He was enough to sustain me then, and is enough to sustain me still

Someone—Plato, I think—once said, 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' " "True. But a life too closely scrutinized will lead to madness, if not suicide.

I feel about Flannery O'Connor the same way that terrible people feel about Ayn Rand.

Beauty, when it is not a promise of happiness, must be destroyed.

Green humanism? What's that? Humanism for little green men?