Quotes About Philosophy

We are the fools of Time and Terror: Days Steal on us, and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

Whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth.

I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without the absurdity of speculating upon another.

The person who believes in God and the person who does not believe in God do not merely disagree about God. They disagree about the character of the universe.

the transformation would be accomplished not in the dimension of time but in that of meaning.

Ahí estaba nuestra diferencia clave, el abismo que nos separaba. Yo tenía una vida real totalmente separa de las creencias, de la realidad general conformada por las creencias compartidas...

Ahí estaba nuestra diferencia clave, el abismo que nos separaba. Yo tenía una vida real totalmente separada de las creencias, de la realidad general conformada por las creencias compartidas...

The revolutionary generation believed, to a man, that freedom and reason are the necessary preconditions of truth.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

High thoughts are profound.

the god stuff is not real.

Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?

This drew frowns from Steve, still smarting from the rejection of his cappuccino. The menu stated clearly in small print that the Economy Dinner for one was not to be shared. Steve, I knew, took these issues seriously. He worked 18 hours a day, seven days a week, and consequently saw life as a grim struggle for existence. Oddly, I hardly work at all, yet share a similar philosophy.

some will say that death

The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites—day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

Every transformation demands as its precondition "the ending of a world"-the collapse of an old philosophy of life.

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.