Quotes About Philosophy

her father's side—had been prone to saying, which was that ". . . the meaning of life, Kira, is moving things from point a to point b. That's it. That's all we really do." "But what about when we talk?" she had said, not entirely understanding. "That's just moving an idea from in here," and he tapped her on the forehead, "out into the real world.

The meaning or life, Kira, is moving things from point a to point b. That's it. That's all we really do. But what about when we talk? she had said, not entirely understanding. That's just moving an idea from here, and he tapped her on the forehead, out into the real world.

On occasion, those attending Socrates Café have met the love of their lives.

Nietzsche suggests that "if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire." In

God is God. His name doesn't matter.

Montaigne blessed the form when he said, "If I knew my own mind, I would not make essays. I would make decisions.

Listening to the man's story, Jim felt he'd been granted a privilege. This was intimate contact with life, the very thing he had missed during all those years of reading philosophy.

Nicholai bir y?l boyunca olup bitenin fark?na varmad?. Günlük yaÅŸam? bir sürü küçük olaylarla noktalan?p ölçülüyor, cezaevi d???ndaki yaÅŸamla da hiçbir ilgisi kalmam?? bulunuyordu. Hiçbir zaman can? s?k?lmam??t?. Fizik kurallar?na ters görünen bir ilke vard? çünkü. Zaman ancak, içi boÅŸ olduÄŸu zaman a??rd?.

Nii et head aega õigupoolest ei olegi?» Dorrien muigas. «Ei.»

But if there is no cosmic Plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile from a place, moreover, that does not exist.

INTERVIEWER Do you believe in God? ECO Why does one love a certain person one day and discover the next day that the love is gone? Feelings, alas, disappear without justification, and often without a trace. INTERVIEWER If you don't believe in God, then why have you written at such great length about religion? ECO Because I do believe in religion. Human beings are religious animals, and such a characteristic feature of human behavior cannot be ignored or dismissed.

What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.

stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus

What does the philosopher say? Odi ergo sum. I hate therefore I am.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Dios ha muerto, el arte dejó de existir, la historia ha llegado a su fin, y yo mismo no me siento del todo bien.

Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.

El alma humana es la verdadera cópula del mundo porque, por un lado, se dirige hacia lo divino y, por el otro, se introduce en el cuerpo y domina la naturaleza.

But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it?

Todo concepto filosófico, tomado en su sentido más genérico, explica cualquier cosa.

The library is testimony to truth and to error

Le pregunté cómo se llamaba el gato y contestó que los gatos no se llaman porque no son cristianos como los perros

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.

omne animal triste post coitum