Quotes About Philosophy

Life's a sonofabitch, then you die.

How did a man know when it was his time? The answer is simple. There comes a moment when you no longer resist the inevitable and you accept the fact that billions have preceded you and that your death is not more important than theirs.

How did a man know when it was his time? The answer was simple. There comes a moment when you no longer resist the inevitable and you accept the fact that billions have preceded you and that your death is not more important than theirs.

Many years back I gave up all claim to a rational view of the world and even avoided people who believed that the laws of physics and causality have any application when it comes to understanding the mysteries of creation or the fact that light can enter the eye and form an image in the brain and send a poetic tendril down the arm into a clutch of fingers that could write the Shakespearean sonnets.

As William Shakespeare said in Henry IV, "we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next.

What the ancients called Bogan, as separate from Ashla.

Having the entire team support the philosophy would ensure consistency in the team's work and maintain credibility within our organization. It's for these reasons that the leadership development program at Yum! Brands, the world's largest restaurant company

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. [ Letter to William Bradford Jr. April 1 1774 ]

Some see the self in the self by means of the self through meditation; others through S??khya yoga; and others through the yoga of action.

But secular-ism, more than any other single word, aptly describes the mental framework and value structure of the people of our time.

Be happy to, I said, cringing to hear such a dumb, folksy locution escape my lips, then launched into my well-rehearsed precis. The fact that humankind now finds itself in a post-Darwinian epistemological condition, I explained, need not trouble us from an ethical perspective.

It's not death if you refuse it... It is if you accept it.

There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut.

Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper, fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason," I said. "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

Human existence must be a kind of error. It is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens." My own philosophy was a little cheerier than Schopenhauer's

Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates.

So, let me get this right...the big whoop about being human is that you get to die?

A corollary of this philosophy was that the writer did not believe in good or evil. Nor did he believe in justice. Like crime, justice was an abstract, something cooked up by men. It wasn't intrinsic to the universe. Life just was. It happened, sometimes meagerly, sometimes abundantly, sometimes in violent excess. There was no right or wrong about any of it.

Que sera, sera.

Michel Foucault.

I mumbled, "Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it." Roddy said, "What's that?" "Henry David Thoreau." It was a quotation I used to live by, thanks to my philosophy degree.