Quotes About Philosophy

By now I've grown used to my destiny and I let the days pass, like the man already wet who lets the rain pummel him.

Ma anche a lui che non si è mosso è toccato qualcosa, un destino – quella sua idea che le cose bisogna capirle, aggiustarle, che il mondo è mal fatto e che a tutti interessa cambiarlo.

They were the good old days. Don't give up hope in the bad new days, which will become the good old days. We appreciate Kennedy because he was killed; Martin Luther King was a great man. If you'd meet Naropa or Tilopa on the spot you'd be pissed off. History is very deceptive, reality is more important. There is a piece of philosophy for you.

We have to relate with our mental gossip and our emotions simply and directly, without philosophy. We have to use the existing material, which is ego's hang-ups and credentials and deceptions, as a starting point. Then we begin to realize that in order to do this we must actually use some kind of feeble credentials. Token credentials are necessary. Without them we cannot begin. So we practice meditation using simple techniques; the breath is our feeble credential.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

I know someone who believes that Hugo Boss scents constitute proof that God does not exist.

Suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better.

Civilised man does not discover gods, he discards them.

If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.

Science gives up to religion that which cannot be known, and as it does not know what it is, that cannot be known, it surrenders to religion absolute vacuity as the proper sphere for its operations.

And why urge people to make an effort in this or that direction if everything, including the effort or its absence, is determined?

Finally, it is one aim of this book to press home the point that the logical issue is between Theism and Atheism. That there is no logical halting place between the two, and that any attempt to call a halt is little more than a concession to a desire for mental or social convenience, seems to me as clear as anything can well be.

We who know both sides know that in giving up the belief in deity we have lost nothing of value, nothing that need cause us a single regret. And on that point we certainly can speak with authority; for we have been where the Theist is, he has not been where we are.

Each stage of theistic belief grows out of the preceding stage, and if it can be shown that the beginning of this evolution arose in a huge blunder I quite fail to see how any subsequent development can convert this unmistakable blunder into a demonstrable truth.

there is a deeper question and it is the explicit Protestant and Saxon philosophy that plans the extinction of the Catholic and Hispanic world vision. This is a task for which over a long time they have been mobilizing a force worse than the military, than usury or any legal fallacies: the penetration by sects which confuse, corrode and consume the remaining vestiges of Christian civilization. (The Black Legends and Hispanic Catholic Culture, pp. 124-125).

It is simple truth that the Indian did not, so long as his native philosophy held sway over his mind, either envy or desire to imitate the splendid achievements of the white man. In his own thought he rose superior to them!

These beings have no other profession than to cultivate the idea of beauty in their person, to satisfy their passions, to feel and to think.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

Lucien thought. And as for Christianity, he agreed with his father: it was a well-intentioned set of beliefs that never worked in real life.

I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

I try to construct a theory on how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

There is no standard by which time can be measured, but the succession of our thoughts, and the changes that take place in the external world.