Quotes About Philosophy

I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.

When I'm sitting around, I'm thinking about how I can make my next professional career move, but more than anything, I'm thinking about the meaning of life and how fleeting it is.

Judaism is a way of thinking, more than anything else, that I think is entirely distinct, and the more you know of it, the more you can enter into that kind of thinking.

The difference between kitties and humans is that we are aware of our mortal condition, and the burden of consciousness is to evoke and embody and explore the coordinates of our condition.

Mortality defines the human condition.

I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.

I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.

I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.

It's always been intriguing to me, the loveability of mortality.

I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.

I watch mostly every martial arts movie... I really like movies that aren't just martial arts. I like movies that have spiritual meaning behind them, like samurai movies, or movies that have meditation.

The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.

I really believe that 'Saw' makes us stop and think and question our motives and what we're doing here on Earth.

The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

I am, he thought, a part of all that I have touched and that has touched me, which, having for me no existence save that which I gave to it, became other than itself by being mixed with what I then was, and is now still otherwise, having fused with what I now am, which is itself a cumulation of what I have been becoming. Why here? Why there? Why now? Why then?

I am freighted with thought.

Read not the Times, read the Eternities.

Google this by Thoreau and see if you can find it among the many many posterized quotes. No. We want doctrines and schemes. The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky. If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

No quiero sentir ya mi vida como si fuera una estadía. La filosofía que así la pinta es falsa. Ya es hora de empezar a vivir.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meager life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich in inward.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.

History is philosophy teaching from examples.

I try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence.