Quotes About Philosophy

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for Buddhists, Shintoists, and Hindus, religion is practical and spiritual philosophy, with a code of ethics

for Buddhists, Shintoists, and Hindus, religion is practical and spiritual philosophy, with a code of ethics (and for some, a cosmogony).

Hume came to warn us against such knowledge, and to stress the need for some rigor in the gathering and interpretation of knowledge

values unscheduled meditation.

Frédéric Dard, Libanius Antiochus, Michael Oakeshott, John Gray, Ammianus Marcellinus, Ibn Battuta, Saadia Gaon, or Joseph de Maistre; he

Everything in religious law comes down to the refinements, applications, and interpretations of the Golden Rule, "Don't do unto others what you don't want them to do to you." This we saw was the logic behind Hammurabi's rule.

You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

Still—there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

NÄ—ra gyvenimo be mirties. Taigi mes negalime sakyti, kad gyvename. Mes tiesiog 'esame'...

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short, she said calmly. You got to take what comes. We just go along, like everybody else, one day at a time.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short," she said calmly. "You got to take what comes. We just go along, like everybody else, one day at a time.

Bestaan is jezelf drinken zonder dorst.

There is only one reality - the reality knowable to reason. And if man does not choose to perceive it, there is nothing else for him to perceive; if it is not of this world that he is conscious, then he is not conscious at all

Perhaps the essence of our evolution as human beings is to keep answering, on deeper and deeper levels, the basic question: Who am I?

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair.

For, has not the world come to an awfully sophisticated pass, when, after a certain degree of acquaintance with it, we cannot even put ourselves to death in whole-hearted simplicity?

Indeed, the same dark question often rose into her mind with reference to the whole race of womanhood. Was existence worth accepting, even to the happiest among them?

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.

It appears to me, said the daguerreotypist, smiling, that Uncle Venner has the principles of Fourier at the bottom of his wisdom; only they have not quite so much distinctness in his mind as in that of the systematizing Frenchman.

a bookworm-one of those men who are born to gnaw dead thoughts. His clothes, you see, are covered with the dust of libraries. He has no inward fountain of ideas... - Earth's Holocaust, Hawthorne

man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.

But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.