Quotes About Philosophy

Invading armies can be resisted, invading ideas cannot be.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a pause, More so, perhaps.

The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy.

Les philosophes disent: Modérez vos joies. Moi je dis: Lâchez-leur la bride, à vos joies. Soyez épris comme des diables. Soyez enragés.

Aucun penseur n'oserait dire que le parfum de l'aubépine est inutile aux constellations.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Así como los diamantes sólo se encuentran en las profundidades de la tierra, las verdades sólo se hallan en las profundidades del pensamiento.

There has come into fashion a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing facts and all gloomy questions.

Une foi ; c'est là pour l'homme le nécessaire. Malheur à qui ne croit rien !

Me acuerdo de haber leído en cierto libro que todos los hombres están condenados a muerte a plazos indefinidos.

Zabluda je uobraziti da se sudbina može iscrpsti i da se može dodirnuti dno makar ?ega bilo.

And even to those who deny supernatural incarnations, what does the crucifix represent? The killing of a man of wisdom.

Ele supunha ter, e talvez tivesse efetivamente, atingido a realidade da vida e da filosofia humana, chegando por fim a não contemplar senão o céu, única coisa que a verdade pode ver do fundo do seu poço.

El problema nuestro no es que nos vamos a morir; es que no sabemos como vivir.

Il n'y a dans les religions que cela d'irreductible. Mais cet irreductible suffit. On ne voit pas l'immense être nécessaire; on le sent.

To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

It's too bad we don't live life backward. I think it was Kierkegaard who said that.

Mama was engaged in a continual quest to "find" herself. In the past few years, she'd tried EST and the human potential movement, spiritual training, Unitarianism. Even Buddhism. She'd cycled through them all, cherry-picked pieces and bits. Mostly, Leni thought, Mama had come away with T-shirts and sayings. Things like, What is, is, and what isn't, isn't. None of it seemed to amount to much.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books, not everybody has to do it. Music is not for everybody.

moral calculus isn't reducible to actual calculus

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

yeah, you can't buy happiness