Quotes About Philosophy

Why do you insist the universe is not a conscious intelligence, when it gave birth to conscious intelligences?

It is useless to know what shall come to pass; it is a miserable thing to be tormented to no purpose.

The brief arc of our days, O Sestius, prevents us from launching prolonged hopes.

Nothing is too absurd for some philosopher to have said it.

Itaque inter omnis omnium gentium summa constat; omnibus enim innatum est et in animo quasi insculptum esse deos.

Wat kan in de bezigheden der mensen van belang lijken voor een man die de eeuwigheid voor ogen houdt en zich bewust is van de uitgestrektheid van het universum?

There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher.

statuere enim qui sit sapiens vel maxime videtur esse sapientis

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...

Sapientia autem est, ut a veteribus philosophis definitum est, rerum divinarum et humanarum causarumque, quibus eae res continentur, scientia, cuius studium qui vituperat haud sane intellego quidnam sit quod laudandum putet.

A book is a suicide postponed.

He didn't much like reading novels - he preferred history or philosophy - or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at a time, because when a poem spoke to him it was as if a brilliant, agonizing light had been turned upon some tiny, private cell of his soul.

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

Whether you understand it or don't understand . . . whether you accept it or not . . . what is, is. That's all there is to it.

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.

Who hasn't asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?

All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.

in the days when the world begins to bleach and shrivel, and the sun is blotched with death. Socialist and Individualist, they'll all be a little dirt lodged deep in the granite wrinkles of the globe's countenance.

Psychoanalysis and dianetics are, on the face of it, both absurd. People are what they are because of causes that go infinitely farther back than infancy of the mother's womb

People don't very much like things that are beautiful.. they are so far from their nasty little minds.

The best physician is also a philosopher

At a more serious level, the desirability of aligning our actions with the more powerful laws of nature, society, and psychology, in order to lead a productive life, is a central theme in many works, particularly the ancient Chinese classic, Tao te Ching.

For we thought all the time that we were passing through time when we really weren't, when we never have. We've just been moving along with time. We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a mater of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we have moved with it.