Quotes About Philosophy

You can't possibly be afraid of death, really, you can only be afraid of life.

I believe that even our most abstract and philosophical views spring from an intensely personal base.

I]n the work of the New Left one finds philosophical justification for what are now intuitive commonplaces of our culture: to be free is to be sexually liberated; to be happy is to be affirmed in that liberation.

In his 1983 Templeton Prize address, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn offered this summary explanation for why all the horrors of Soviet communism came to pass: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened."1

Of course, that a sentence is utterly fallacious has never prevented it from being believed by large numbers of people and, on occasion, used as a foundational principle for a comprehensive philosophy of life.

Does human nature carry with it a moral structure and a specific end or purpose that remain constant over time and to which we must conform ourselves in order to flourish? Or are we simply the stuff of which we are made and beyond that free to be or do whatever we so choose? Pieces of living playdough attached to a will?

In biblical times or in ancient Greece, sex was regarded as something that human beings did; today it is considered to be something vital to who human beings are.

humans are not the measure of all things.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

All genuine political theories presuppose man to be evil, i.e., by no means an unproblematic but a dangerous and dynamic being.

All genuine political theories presuppose man to be 'evil'.

humanity, bestiality.

Norms are valid only for normal situations.

The basic outline of the philosophy of the Buribunks: I think, therefore I am; I speak therefore I am; I write, therefore I am; I publish therefore I am.

The remarkable and, for many, certainly disquieting diagnosis [is] that all genuine political theories presuppose man to be evil.

Der Feind ist unsere eigene Frage als Gestalt.

The understanding of every type of representation disappears with the spread of economic thinking.

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

Life is nothing but a cock and bull story, and one of the best of its kind.

The question of when life begins is answered according to the purposes for which we ask it.

These are presumably the thoughts that made him restless.

Ma non sa lei che cosa è il "De Officiis"?» chiese improvvisamente a Gigi, e come in un tono di rimprovero. Gigi, ora, tagliuzzava una gomma con la punta del temperino: levò il viso, atteggiandolo a profondo interesse. «Ma è la grande Etica della latinità!» proclamò Frugoni entusiasta, con voce piena, potente.

L'altra parola, che ritorna sempre nei discorsi è crai, il cras latino, domani. Tutto quello che si aspetta, che deve arrivare, che deve essere fatto o mutato, è crai. Ma crai significa mai.