Quotes About Philosophy

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

The highest virtue here may be least in another world.

And all the mumbo-jumbo of reincarnation. Man into ox into ape into beetle into eight million four hundred thousand kinds of animate things. Proof? We do not go in for such pedestrian pastimes as proof! That is Western. We are of the mysterious East. No proof, just faith. No reason, just faith.

The philosophy of religion has always been death-oriented instead of being life-oriented.

There are many ways of attaining godhood, say teachers of religion. Acharya Rajneesh disagrees and says there is only one way, and sexual intercourse is the first step towards it. He maintains that religion as it is practised, is false, and its propagators are agents of Satan. They have degraded love and taught us the negation of life. The philosophy of religion has always been death-oriented instead of being life-oriented.

O Sage ! the stomach is the prison house of wind, The sagacious contain it not in captivity, If wind torment thy belly, release it, fart; For the wind in the stomach is like a stone on the heart.

How do you know I'm a romanticist?" Like most romanticists Anwar too prided himself on being a realist.

Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

Never mind,' she said, 'I don't see the point of a God.' 'And I don't see much point in a cat.' the Kami replied.

Because there's always a reason for everything, isn't there? Because if there isn't a reason for even one thing, like how you can get sick, or your husband stop loving you, or people you love die—then there's no reason for anything. So there must be reasons.

On whatever level you are presently concerned with death (and we assume you are; after all, death is concerned with you), you should feel free to write about it.

All good things must someday end. Fortunately, this is also true of bad things.

You know what appeals to me about philosophy? Nobody wins.

I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.

right now we don't actually have a clear definition of what kind of beings we are.

Both Christianity and materialism deny that we have inherent value, that the self is worthy in and of itself.

How could a real person kill an imaginary animal?

Embracing life means accepting death.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

Yes, that's what I meant to say. If this seems a bit circular to you, well, it is, but it has deep meaning.

Sometimes I think we have no present, only the past.

Perhaps moksha lies in not thinking about the afterlife.

My mother used to say that the gods made the world round so that we could never see too far into our own future.