Quotes About Philosophy

Disappointment is a beautiful woman reading Ayn Rand.

How could an unlearned youth such as White write with such wisdom and resignation, while I, brimful of philosophy and book learning, was unable to still my heart into patience?

The gods never meant you to live forever, so why spoil they life they did give you? Is a rainbow any less beautiful because it's short-lived? Or because you can't grasp hold of it? Consider, man. Perhaps it is beautiful expressly because of that.

La pensée se glace en se traduisant en phrases.

few dozen" wise, unselfish sages,

Vooruitgang bestaat niet, en dat is maar goed ook, want zoals het is, is het al erg genoeg.

Ons leven is een sterven, aan de kant van de weg. Maar dit terzijde.

Ik ben een revist, veel en veel meer dan jij. Voor mij zijn de voorstelling en de idee vrijwel even belangrijk en reëel als de tastbare werkelijkheid.

Een groot schrijver is altijd pessimist, want hij weet dat het leven moeilijk begint en slecht eindigt.

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.

Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.'" Haley turned to her. "Rumi. My favorite quote of his.

Many Western doctors hold the belief that we can improve everything, even natural childbirth in a healthy woman. This philosophy is the philosophy of people who think it deplorable that they were not consulted at the creation of Eve, because they would have done a better job.

For his redemption, man has nothing to contribute to God other than the readiness of unconditional surrender. The passive acceptance inherent in woman, which ancient philosophy regarded as purely negative, appears in the Christian order of grace as the positively decisive factor. The Marian dogma, reduced to a brief formula, denotes the doctrine of the cooperation of the creature in the work of redemption.

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place")

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

I just tell you, and though I don't sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.

There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. There's your answer.

Reason needs the imagination and at the same time must transcend it because what really matters is the search for truth.

As Christians our task is to mirror the divine artist as faithfully as possible. Aquinas, like his fellow thinkers, equates imagination with fantasy. He affirms the mediating function of the imagination between mind and body and perceives it as `a treasure-store of forms received through the senses

Tengo que irme, me dije, ya he perdido demasiado tiempo entre los muertos, fingiéndome muerto, olvidándome de la ironía.

Abituarsi a guardare la vita come una cosa d'altri, rubata per scherzo, da restituire domani. Convincersi ch'è uno sbaraglio per temerari, che la precauzione suprema è morire. La morte: un esilio? Un rimpatrio? Come s'affonda in un legno un chiodo, a piccoli colpi, la morte... Pena di doversi lasciare a metà, dopo aver fatto con se stessi così poca strada, curiosità di conoscere il séguito...

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.