Quotes About Philosophy

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

We have said that "Alchemy was the attempt to demonstrate experimentally on the material plane the validity of a certain philosophical view of the Cosmos"; now, this "philosophical view of the Cosmos" was Mysticism. Alchemy had its origin in the attempt to apply, in a certain manner, the principles of Mysticism to the things of the physical plane, and was, therefore, of a dual nature, on the one hand spiritual and religious, on the other, physical and material.

Conservatism is the negation of Ideology.

In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword.

Good books are the warehouses of ideals.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

Thoughts about reality are not reality

You said, 'Life is a tragedy, but its meaning lies in how we face the tragedy.

Belief is something you have in church, and God is dead!

I have long examined things, and have found that death is less dangerous than beauty.

What a shame it is that a philosopher cannot accept what might befall any man.

All philosophers must, therefore, doff their hats to the poets when they discover that the path of reason takes them only so far.

Death, nihilism trap for the absurd present.

metaphysical emotion, is a plot to nothingness

Philosophy is a mental leap, between approach and identification with wisdom.

The Book does not play James Joyce with the Universe.

Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we're talking now, not factuality but possibility.

Jean Paul Sartre, que estaba al mando de un puesto en la Línea Maginot, escribió: «No habrá lucha, será una guerra moderna, sin masacres, igual que la pintura moderna sin asunto, la música sin melodía, la física sin materia».

Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.