Quotes About Philosophy

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.

Linus: Nothing goes on forever. All good things must come to an end... Charlie: When do the good things start?

All is well... That's my new philosophy...

Sometimes I wonder how you can stand being just a dog..." "You play with the cards you're dealt... Whatever that means.

Sometimes I ask myself questions... Sometimes I ask myself, is this your real life or is this just a pilot film? Is my life a thirty-nine week series or is it a special?" "Whatever it is, your ratings are down... Five cents, please!

An enthusiastic philosopher, of whose name we are not informed, had constructed a very satisfactory theory on some subject or other, and was not a little proud of it. "But the facts, my dear fellow," said his friend, "the facts do not agree with your theory."—"Don't they?" replied the philosopher, shrugging his shoulders, "then, tant pis pour les faits ;"—so much the worse for the facts!

Thinking is stinking.

The only thing that makes reality is death; then they hang it on a cross, kneel down and pray to it.

That which we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence." At the time

That which we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence." At the time I had not read Wittgenstein

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creative.

Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

Why is it a good thing to understand this movie so well? Because it will help you live a good life. Absorbing the deep meaning of the Nicomachean Ethics will also help you live a good life, but Groundhog Day will do it with a lot less effort. 35.

All the other virtues, and the living of a virtuous life, depend on them. If you took an introductory philosophy course in college, they were probably translated from the Greek as courage, justice, temperance, and prudence.

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

Bits also play a part in logic, that strange blend of philosophy and mathematics for which a primary goal is to determine whether certain statements are true or false. True

According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.

Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.

Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss-up.

The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.