Quotes About Philosophy

Where is he tonight? Where am I? Where are you?

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

clichés are truisms and all truisms are true)—On

Nothing's alive for the universe is a dream already ended.

finally I went over to an old cook in the doorway of the kitchen and asked him "Why did Bodhidharma come from the West?" (Bodhidharma was the Indian who brought Buddhism eastward to China.) "I don't care," said the old cook, with lidded eyes, and I told Japhy and he said, "Perfect answer, absolutely perfect. Now you know what I mean by Zen.

little absent from everything in the way of a Zen Master actually who realizes that everything is indifferent anyway

Why is he so mad about white tiled sinks and 'kitchen machinery' he calls it? People have good hearts whether or not they live like Dharma Bums.

My philosophy is that you can't explain the world. It's too big and it's too crazy and sometimes it's funny and most of the time it's... strange.

What difference does it make after all? For what's heaven? What's Earth? All in the mind.

Life is life, and kind is kind.

Au fond, Qu'est-ce qui est arrivé après ? — voilà la seule raison d'être de la vie ou d'une histoire.

Late afternoon, it was I not the void that changed.

Buddhism wasn't responsible for the insane atrocities of human history

Quedamos tumbados de espaldas mirando al techo y preguntándonos qué se habría propuesto Dios al hacer un mundo tan triste.

What did I care about all the irking hurts and tedious wronks of the world, the human bones are but vain lines dawdling

Ä°nsan zaman?n d???nda kal?p sab?rl? m? olmal?, yoksa zaman?n piyonu mu olmal?? Köklerini, ÅŸüphesiz ki ahmak ve dönek bir toplumun derinliklerine salmak kiÅŸiye nas?l bir fayda saÄŸlard??

God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored?

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middleclass philosophy out of it.

And of course now no one can tell us that there is no God. We've passed through all forms. You remember, Sal, when I first came to New York and I wanted Chad King to teach me about Nietzsche. You see how long ago? Everything is fine, God exists, we know time. Everything since the Greeks has been predicted wrong. You can't make it with geometry and geometrical systems of thinking. It's all this!

All those Zen Masters throwing young kids in the mud because they can't answer their silly word questions That's because they want them to discover that mud is better than words, boy.

Like as the birds that gather in the trees of afternoon,' wrote Ashvhaghosha almost two thousand years ago, 'then at nightfall vanish all away, so are the separations of the world.

In fact it didn't make a goddamn much of a difference to him. "I'm neutral," said he, laughing happily with a kind of an eager slaking leer, and Japhy yelled: "Neutral is what Buddhism is!

Japhy, do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.