Quotes About Philosophy

Death is not a lover. Oh yes he is.

To see God everywhere is to see Him nowhere

What do you think death is, man? Of whom do we speak when we speak of a man who was and is not? Are these blind riddles or are they not some part of every man's jurisdiction? What is death if not an agency? And whom does he intend toward?

What is the inner life of an eidolon? Do his thoughts and his questions originate with him? Do mine with me? Is he my creature? Am I his? I

Some things in this world cant be helped, he said. And I believe this is probably one of em.

If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to the hazards of fortune.

Rawlins lay watching the stars. After a while he said: I could still be born. I might look different or somethin. If God wanted me to be born I'd be born. And if He didnt you wouldnt. You're makin my goddamn head hurt.

The laws of mathematics supposedly derive from the rules of logic. But there is no argument for the rules of logic that does not presuppose them.

Where do we go when we die? he said. I dont know, the man said. Where are we now?

Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.

How does the never to be differ from what never was

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

Do you think of yourself as an atheist. God no. Those were the good old days.

My guess is that you can only be so happy. While there seems to be no floor to sorrow.

But what is your life? Can you see it? It vanishes at its own appearance. Moment by moment. Until it vanishes to appear no more. When you look at the world is there a point in time when the seen becomes the remembered? How are they separate? It is that which we have no way o show. It is that which is missing from our map and from the picture that it makes. And yet is all we have.

If fate is the law then is fate also subject to that law?

Lo que es verdad de un hombre, dijo el juez, es verdad de muchos.

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

Schopenhauer says somewhere that if the entire universe should vanish the only thing left would be music.

My railings against the platonists are a thing of the past. Assuming at last that one could, what would be the advantage of ignoring the transcendent nature of mathematical truths. There is nothing else that all men are compelled to agree upon, and when the last light in the last eye fades to black and takes all speculation with it forever I think it could even be that these truths will glow for just a moment in the final light. Before the dark and the cold claim everything.

Do reflections also travel at the speed of light? What does your buddy Albert think? When the light hits the glass and starts back in the opposite direction doesnt it have to come to a full stop first? And so everything is supposed to hang on the speed of light but nobody wants to talk about the speed of dark. What's

Well. Nothin's forever. Some things are. Yeah. Some things are.

To the skeptic all arguments are circular.

It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way. He