Quotes About Philosophy

In faith I know not why I am so sad. Ludens did not reply to this remark which Gildas often uttered.

How little perhaps can words convey except in the hands of a genius.

But these speculations are too nightmarish. Better to feel 'I shall never know'.

A man who's as sick as Bruno can't be philosophical.

Moy felt something snap inside her as if her heart had snapped. The heart-string, she thought — what is the heart-string?

Is that a quotation? Only from me.

Everything is full of gods, cousin James once said, quoting somebody.

Philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious

Blaise has always lived in a dream world. We all live in dream worlds, said Monty.

I've almost finished The Republic. I find Plato at times a vile casuist, and almost always a reactionary. But he does write exquisite Greek.

I know time doesn't heal. That's the silliest idea of all.

Mortality itself was my philosophical robe.

Even Wittgenstein did not think that we would ever reach the moon.

Life is horrible, horrible, horrible, said the philosopher.

There's only one thing the matter and that's everything.

rabbit hole of relativism.

Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.

Fuck that: take shagging n peeve oot ay the equation n yir left wi the sqare root ay swee fuck all!

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

Religion will never show the way.

An empty stomach is better than full and grief is better than happiness.

Lorenzo il Magnifico, the Plato Four, the humanists had taught him that man was the center of the universe; and this was never more demonstrable that when he stood looking upward and found himself, a lone individual, serving as the central pole holding up the tarpaulin of sun and clouds, moon and stars, knowing that, lone or abandoned as he might feel, without his support the heavens would fall.

Art is amoral; so is life.