Quotes About Philosophy

I got no reason to be afraid of God. I've even got a bone or two to pick with Him.

I think what is being pointed out is that human consciousness and reality are not the same thing.

I suppose it should be a comfort to understand that one cannot be dead forever where there's no forever to be dead in.

And it may even be that in the end all problems are spiritual problems.

Em que é que o que nunca existirá difere do que nunca existiu?

The world you live in is shored up by a collective of agreements. Is that something you think about? The hope is that the truth of the world somehow lies in the common experience of it. Of course the history of science and mathematics and even philosophy is a good bit at odds with this notion. Innovation and discovery by definition war against the common understanding. One should be wary.

I don't mean to upset you, but reflective men often find themselves at a certain remove from the realities of life.

If you dont know what life is—and you dont—then I'm not sure how you would characterize the absence of it.

And what do these categories signify? Where did they come from? What does it mean that they are two shades of blue? In my eyes. If music was here before we were, for whom was it here? Schopenhauer says somewhere that if the entire universe should vanish the only thing left would be music.

If mathematical objects exist independently of human thought what else are they independent of? The universe, I suppose. When you solve a problem there is always the compelling sense that the solution was there and that you have discovered it.

Dont be afraid for me, she had written. When has death ever harmed anyone?

That the deep foundation of the world be considered where it has its being in the sorrow of her creatures.

Those whom life does not cure death will.

Contemplating death is supposed to have a certain philosophical value. Palliative even. Trivial to say, but the best way to die well is to live well. To die for another would give your death meaning. Ignoring for the time being the fact that the other is going to die anyway.

La gente si preparava sempre al domani. A me sembrava assurdo. Il domani non si stava certo preparando per loro. Non sapeva neppure che esistessero.

Has pensado alguna vez en la muerte? Sí. A veces. ¿Y tú? Sí. A veces. ¿Crees que existe un cielo? Sí. ¿Tú no? No lo sé. Quizá sí. ¿Crees que puedes creer en el cielo si no crees en el infierno? Creo que puedes creer lo que quieras.

It's just that the passing of time is irrevocably the passing of you. And then nothing. I suppose it should be a comfort to understand that one cannot be dead forever where there's no forever to be dead in. Well. I see your look. I know that you see me enfettered in some cognitive morass and I'm sure that you would contend it to be the ultimate solipsism to believe that the world ceases when you do. But I've no other way to look

Ultimately there is nothing to know and no one to know it.

You can get from the noumenal to the phenomenal without stirring from your chair. In other words, nothing can be excerpted from the absolute without being rendered perceptual.

You think you can believe in heaven if you dont believe in hell? I guess you can believe what you want to. Rawlins

All reality is loss and all loss is eternal. There is no other kind. And that reality into which we inquire must first contain ourselves. And what are we? Ten percent biology and ninety percent nightrumor.

And so everything is supposed to hang on the speed of light but nobody wants to talk about the speed of dark.

All reality is loss and all loss is eternal. There is no other kind.

The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion