Quotes About Philosophy

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

When thinking leads to the unthinkable, it is time to return to simple life. What thinking cannot solve, life solves, and what action never decides is reserved for thinking.

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

You should be he himself--not Christians, but Christ.

It is no more possible to make life easy than it is to grow a herb of immortality.

Dac? lumea ar fi fost perfect?, atunci nici eu nu a? fi existat

Frequently the whole book would boil down to a single breathing practice, with an entire philosophy wrapped around it. Sometimes, maddeningly, a book would spend two hundred pages promoting the spiritual value of a particular style of breathing, only to say at the end that it could not be taught in a book.

But what if Shakespeare? and Hamlet? were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

Ella cree en los santos. Yo creo en los accidentes. Pienso que básicamente creemos en la misma cosa.

What if Shakespeare had it wrong? What if Shakespeare—and Hamlet—were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

To be or not to be: that is the question. That's from Hamlet's - maybe Shakespeare's - most famous soliloquy. I had to memorize the whole speech for sophomore English, and I can still remember every word. I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words right and collect my A.

To be, or not to be: that is the question. That's from Hamlet's - maybe Shakespeare's - most famous soliloquy. […] But what if Shakespeare - and Hamlet - were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

The one who called her fearless before. The one who writes in complete sentences and quotes dead philosophers. The one who, in a twisted sort of way, makes sense.

And every philosophy of history bears in itself the seed of a theology.

My theory: if the malls don't open until ten what's the point of being up earlier than that?

He gulped. "No, we aren't done chatting. Why aren't you afraid of dying?" "Everything and everyone has an end," she said. "I mean, you're going to be killed soon and though I loathe the thought, you don't see me crying about that, either. I know what will happen, and I accept what cannot be changed. I'm trying to live while I can. While WE can. Dwelling on the bad is what destroys all hints of joy.

If there's one thing I've learned throughout the years, it's that what you believe is the impetus for your entire life.

Have you realized that dying is the only way to truly live?

Karyos's people adopted an ingenious, if somewhat perplexing attitude that life was a circle. Not like Disney's circle of life thing, which was really just a nice way to say, "death is normal, children, so suck it up.

Propositions are true or false. Images are not.