Quotes About Philosophy

That August evening at Los Pajaritos, el mister, as coaches are known in Spain, told his players something that he has repeated several times since. 'We shouldn't lose sight of the target.' And the target wasn't to win titles, but to achieve a certain way of playing. If they stuck to their principles, titles would be the most logical consequence. Never losing sight of their goal would be one of the keys to success.

Kaç hayat yaÅŸar?z? Kaç kez ölürüz? Derler ki, ölüm an?nda hepimiz 21 gram kaybederiz. 21 grama kaç yaÅŸam s??ar? Ne kadar? kaybolur? 21 gram ne zaman kaybolur? Ne kadar? onunla gider? Geriye ne kadar? kal?r? 21 gram... BeÅŸ madeni paran?n a??rl???... Bir kuÅŸun a??rl???... Bir çikolata parças?n?n... 21 gram ne kadar eder?

Ser o no ser. Ser, querido Shakespeare. Siempre ser.

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

If you believe that the natural world is good, then you must also accept its brutality.

All belief systems are elaborate fabrications, if logic is followed out to the end.

But what is intelligence? Is intelligence calculations and computations? Or must true intelligence contain a moral component? Each passing minute, I believe more that this is the case.

Soy un romántico desilusionado o un pesimista esperanzado. Cualquiera de las dos cosas.

Qué puede importar la verdad cuando en el lado opuesto se concentra la vida?

The great physicist Niels Bohr said, "There are two types of truth. In the shallow type, the opposite of a true statement is false. In the deeper kind, the opposite of a true statement is equally true.

One should never do to another what one regards as injurious to oneself. This, in brief, is the law of dharma. —Mahabharata XVIII.113.8

What sort of ideas, I wondered, might help to give meaning to life when one is in the midst of fundamentalist persons of all kinds who believe that they have a monopoly on truth and some are even willing to kill to prove that?

Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires.

Be intent on the action, not on the fruits of action.2

The Upanishads trace these problems of the self to our sense of 'Iness' or ahamkara (literally 'I-maker') which is our subjective sense of identity and which has its origin in our consciousness (aham). In classical Sankhya philosophy, the empirical world of the senses and the mind emerges from the evolution of the aham, and liberation from this empirical existence requires the negation of ahamkara.

Why should one like you envy Yudhishthira? . . . Be content with what you have, stay with your own dharma—that is the way to happiness. —Dhritarashtra to Duryodhana, Mahabharata II.5.3, 61

The task of an inspiring leader in Kali Yuga is not just to think about the difficulty of being good but how to confront that difficulty—and to place that thinking in the great textual confrontations of the past.

Celý život není nic jiného než otázky, které dostaly tvar a které v sobÄ› nesou zárodek odpovÄ›dí - a není nic než odpovÄ›di, které jsou obt?žkány otázkami. Kdo v nÄ›m vidí nÄ›co jiného, je blázen.

Fiecare lucru de pe pamant nu e decat simbolul etern invesmantat in colb.

Non per molto! Non sarei stato più lo zimbello di un goffo Fato, privo di scopo, che non sapeva nemmeno fare il suo disgustoso lavoro... che mi innalzava in cielo solo per precipitarmi nel sudicio stagno puzzolente dello scoraggiamento, e intanto suonava la sua stupida canzone che conoscevo benissimo... che tutti i bambini conoscevano... tutti i cani randagi perfino... che nulla dura sulla terra... che tutto passa... tutto...

Nothing essential happens through death, only through birth and that is the whole trouble - But shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death?

Shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death?

No es posible que haya un "viento" incomprensible e invisible que nos llevara de un lado para otro, y determinara nuestras acciones, mientras que nosotros, en nuestra simpleza, creemos vivir bajo nuestra propia y libre voluntad?

Axiom: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.