Quotes About Philosophy

Eight dollars a week or a million a year—what is the difference? A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer.

Between blasts she resorted to Epictetian philosophy in the form of pepsin chewing gum.

No pretendía ser un sabio, pero había bebido hasta emborracharse en el manantial de la sabiduría.

The simplest explanation is usually the right one

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Reality is always at the edge of the abyss, hung from the thread of a thought.

Light is time reflecting on time.

is not really a system of painting but a method of internal investigation. It is not the philosophy of painting but painting as philosophy.

There was only one huge world with no back to it A world like a sun One day it broke into tiny pieces They were the words of the language we now speak Pieces that will never come together Broken mirrors where the world sees itself shatterered

Freedom is not a philosophy, nor it is even an idea. It is a movement of consciousness that lead us, at certain moments, to utter one of two monosyllables: Yes or No. In their brevity, lasting but an instant, like a flash of lighting, the contradictory character of human nature stands revealed.

Si es real la luz blanca de esta lámpara, real la mano que escribe, ¿son reales los ojos que miran lo escrito?

Nuestro culto a la muerte es culto a la vida, del mismo modo que el amor, que es hambre de vida, es anhelo de muerte.

El hombre es un ser que se ha creado sí mismo al crear un lenguaje.

I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.

Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.

The real explanations are usually the simplest, and often the saddest.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

French philosopher-priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Newton: a toda acción corresponde una reacción de igual magnitud pero en sentido contrario. Es la esencia de lo que los filósofos orientales llaman karma. En El color púrpura, el personaje Celie lo explica a Mister: "Todo lo que trates de hacerme, ya se ha hecho en ti". Tus acciones giran a tu alrededor, tan seguro como que la tierra gira alrededor del sol.

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents

sometimes I wonder what my interior actually is. A heart that goes pitter-patter and thoughts that glide by like little paper boats on flowing water

It's not the content, but the form of thought that counts.