Quotes About Philosophy

He had sometimes thought that if she had the option to be nothing but a brain in a jar, that would be fine with her.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

then is that not life in its simplest form? That so little matters so much, and so much matters so little.

Mi séquito estuvo compuesto por diez sabios colmados de ciencia, los cuales permanecían callados , sabiendo lo que tanto se olvida, que el no saber es la única ciencia

between the word and the world lie fading eternities of soon

El dolor puro y completo es tan imposible como la dicha pura y completa".

Life's a bitch," I said. And then you die," Larry finished for me.

He was beginning to think Mr Piper the philosophy teacher was right: man was not born good, he was just out for himself, and when he got the chance he would laugh at those less fortunate, those unlucky ones who kept on flunking French.

Your world is the world of coincidence, of meaninglessness. You choose the world that would have us as specks of dust, as mice in a cage. Is that the kind of world you want to live in,

I don't spend much money on clothes I never did.

We need a new religion.

my dogma got run over by my karma'.

You're saying the mysteries are worth examining, even if they're too big to be understood. That maybe they're bound to be too big to understand, but that doesn't take anything away from them, and in fact just adds to their beauty.

Did everyone think about death practically every day, or was it just me? Did everyone wonder why we existed, and if life was nothing but a fluke?

I went over to my bookshelves, makeshift boards on bricks. I had a lot of books, most of them nonfiction, because I'd always felt that in nonfiction, specifically in the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, and theology, I might find clues about ways to live my life.

In the time of Philotimus, a notable Greek physician several centuries BCE, sufferers complaining of a light head were instructed to wear a lead helmet in hopes of a cure. Chrysippus of Cnidus, a contemporary, believed that people with depression should eat more cauliflower while carefully avoiding basil because it could incite someone to insanity.

I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I am nothing,' i feel mysteriously like something again, ground zero, genesis, the pull of possibilities.

It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.

I had lots of books, most of them nonfiction, because I'd always felt that in nonfiction, specifically in the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, and theology, I might find clues about ways to live my life.

have no laws or faith, and live according to nature. They do not recognize the immortality of the soul

Time, Space and Causality - study these three.

Leading scientists and philosophers such as Nick Bostrom, contend that if an advanced civilization created us, most probably this 'advanced civilization' is also a creation of an even more advance civilization.

Hermes Trismegistus is the most famous Gnostic. He was the founder of the pre-Christian lineage of Greek Gnosticism.

If you are to accept that embracing the Sacred Dark is as necessary as embracing the Sacred Light, does that mean that it does not matter if you live or die, heal or hurt, love or hate?