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Quotes About Philosophy

specula?ia filosofic? este inven?ia bog?ta?ilor. Jos cu ea!
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Lafontaine was wrong: Dead is the mandible, alive the song.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
sham idealists, [are] people who can somehow combine what they call the good and the beautiful with material things, such as a bureaucratic career, etc.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Blood-black nothingness began to spin. A system of cells interlinked, within cells interlinked, within cells interlinked within one stem. And dreadfully distinct against the dark, a tall white fountain played.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
El sentido moral de los mortales es el precio que debemos pagar por nuestro sentido mortal de la belleza.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Oh, 'philosophy.' You know. When you try to imagine a mirok [small pink potato] without the least reference to any you have eaten or will eat.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
the evolution of sense, in a sense, is the evolution of non sense
~ Vladimir Nobokov
I learned for the first but by no means the last time about the power of acceptance of life and death.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.
~ W.C. Fields
There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.
~ lanier jaron ii
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms
~ Lao Tzu
The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.
~ Lao Tzu
Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.Reversion is the action of Tao.Weakness is the function of Tao.All things in the world come from being.And being comes from non-being.
~ Lao Tzu
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
~ Lao Tzu
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.Non-being penetrates that in which there is no space.Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
~ Lao Tzu
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
~ Lao Tzu
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
~ Lao Tzu
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
~ Lao Tzu
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
~ Lao Tzu
Heaven and Earth are not humane.They regard all things as straw dogs.
~ Lao Tzu
All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
~ Lao Tzu
The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.
~ Lao Tzu
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
~ Lao-Tzu, Tao te Ching
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
~ Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu