Quotes About Philosophy

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

Despair = Suffering - Meaning.

The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again." Everyone

The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.

I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter.

Yet one must also recognize that morality is based on ideas and that all ideas are dangerous—dangerous because ideas can only lead to action and where the action leads no man can say.

Life is tragic, and therefore unutterably beautiful.

One can be, indeed one must strive to become, tough and philosophical concerning destruction and death, for this is what most of mankind has been best at since we have heard of man. (But remember: most of mankind is not all of mankind.)

But sometimes he would ask, in the middle of a sentence- concerned, possibly, with Ancient Rome: 'Little-bit- d'you love me?

It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion teh conundrum of life

You win. You're the philosopher.

He made two or three peculiar observations; as when shewn the botanical garden, 'Is not EVERY garden a botanical garden?

After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus.

I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

Most men would rather die, than think. Many do.

Real generosity toward the future," as Camus famously put it, "lies in giving all to the present.

No tienes que llorar, O-chan. La vida sólo es un sueño dentro de un sueño —dijo el viejo

Kogo, the goshawk, fluttered on his wrist and settled herself, watching him. Toranaga smiled at her. I did not choose to be what I am. It is my karma.

But if I am to go, I am to go, and there's the end of it. Karma. She turned her mind off the inevitable to the immediate problem

A samurai dies with dignity. For what is life to a samurai? Nothing at all. All life is suffering, neh ?

Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and see and earth.

What was his death poem?" Omi said: "What are clouds But an excuse for the sky? What is life But an escape from death?' " Toranaga smiled. "Interesting.