Quotes About Philosophy

I was not born with wisdom. I love the ancient teachings and have worked hard to attain to their level.

Life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Our own thesis was sketched in the Introduction: the classical written Chinese language—the language in which the Analects was composed—is unique, being sharply distinct not only from all non-Sinitic languages but from spoken Chinese as well (ancient and modern), and that the differences between the two Chinese languages are of greater linguistic and philosophical significance than has been generally noticed.

Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you.

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

Maybe it's not logical. I don't know. I don't care. I've been asked didnt I think it odd that I should be present to witness the death of everything and I do think it's odd but that doesnt mean it's not so. Someone has to be here.

Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.

The hundred nights they'd sat up arguing the pros and cons of self destruction with the earnestness of philosophers chained to a madhouse wall

I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again.

There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us.

If the world itself is a horror then there is nothing to fix and the only thing you could be protected from would be the contemplation of it.

Who is it? said the boy. I dont know. Who is anybody?

The Good Book says that the meek shall inherit the earth and I expect that's probably the truth. I aint no freethinker, but I'll tell you what. I'm a long way from bein convinced that it's all that good a thing.

What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?

White: We were born in such a fix as this. Suffering and human destiny are the same thing. Each is a description of the other. Black: We aint talkin about sufferin. We talkin about bein happy. White: Well you cant be happy if you're in pain. Black: Why not?

We dont move through the days, Squire. They move through us.

The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.

The judge is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

People are always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

What was it you said? After the math comes the aftermath?

I think that if there was a reason then that would just be one more thing to inquire about. My notion is you probably make up reasons after you've decided what it is you're goin to do. Or not do.