Quotes About Philosophy

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

This was the penn'worth of his thought.

To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birth-day of our eternity; and it is the only way to it.

"Que scais-je?" was the motto of Montaigne, As also of the first academicians: That all is dubious which man may attain, Was one of their most favourite positions. There's no such thing as certainty, that's plain As any of Mortality's conditions; So little do we know what we're about in This world, I doubt if doubt itself would be doubting.

When I was young I used to think the only certain thing about life was that I should one day die. Now I think the only certain thing about life is that there is no such thing as death.

Poverty is the sister of a sound mind.

Kur shihte se të tjerët nuk mahniteshin aq fort sa ç'e kishte pritur, ai i rikthehej fillimit. Në qytet bëhej nami, kurse ata ishin si në humbellë. Ishim në një kohë që s'është më, më kupton? Koha ecën, orët, dita, të gjitha ecin, kurse ti mbetesh në diçka që s'di si ta quash. Kohë pa kohë. Nën zero...

Analytical psychology and magic comprise in my estimation two halves or aspects of a single technical system.

Communism is Christianity castrated by Ockham`s Razor.

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

As a robot I could have lived forever. But I tell you all today I would rather die a man, than live for all eternity as a machine.

Tako se na kapiji, izme?u neba, reke i brda, naraštaj za naraštajem u?io da ne žali preko mere ono što mutna voda odnese. Tu je u njih ulazila nesvesna filozofija kasabe: da je život neshvatljivo ?udo, jer se neprestano troši i osipa, a ipak traje i stoji ?vrsto kao na Drini ?uprija.

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Así en la kapija, entre el cielo, el río y las montañas, generación tras otra aprendió a no lamentar sobremanera lo que el agua turbia se llevaba. Ahí les penetró la filosofía inconsciente de la kasaba: que la vida es un prodigio incomprensible porque se gasta y derrocha sin cesar y, sin embargo, dura y perdura firmemente como <>

Pero ya al día siguiente todo volvía a ser igual que siempre, porque a los visegradenses no les gusta recorfar lo malo ni preocuparse por adelantado; en la sangre llevan la certidumbre de que la buena vida se compone de treguas y de que sería alocado y absurdo enturbiar estas escasas treguas buscando una vida más firme y estable que no existe.

Is anyone born a futilitarian? Or does it simply grow on us, like a fungus that afflicts the toenail of the great toe on our right foot from wearing shoes too small, eventually spreading to the neighboring toes?

Schmerz ist Wahrheit; alles andere wird angezweifelt.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —Shakespeare

There are some who believe that without a level of quality, life is only pain.

Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.

No consciousness that we would recognize as consciousness. Not awareness, as far as we can make out, of a self with a history. What I mind is what tends to come next. They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends Therefore we are free to kill them? Why? What is so special about the form of consciousness that we recognize that makes killing a bearer of it a crime while killing an animal goes unpunished?