Quotes About Philosophy

Memento Mori' means 'Remember you will die.

Some book of mine - this book of philosophy, for example - may sit ignored and lonely on a high shelf, but then someday a reader will walk into a library and spot the spine of the book they have been waiting for, and they will pluck my book off the shelf and use it to stand on, to reach the book they are excited to read.

Momento mori- Remember you will die.

I wasn't sad the way a spider isn't an insect.

The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world.

If you enter a library looking for a particularly quiet place to read, head straight for the philosophy section. Because no one likes to read philosophy, no one will be there, and you will be undisturbed to read, to write or just to think and keep watch, as I do and have always done.

There was a philosopher who said that all of life is just shadows. He said that people were just sitting in a cave, watching shadows on the cave wall. Aye - shadows of something much bigger and grander than themselves.

Memento Mori' means 'Remember you will die.

But the sad truth is that the truth is sad, and what you want does not matter.

it is almost as if enormous philosophical questions are not designed to be answered at all, but just to make you think

God made everything out of nothing, but sometimes the nothingness shows through.

In a world too often governed by corruption and arrogance it can be difficult to stay true to one's philosophical and literary principles." VFD

People aren't either wicked or noble," the hook-handed man said. "They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

The sad truth is that the truth is sad, and what you want does not matter.

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

The sad truth is the truth is sad.

No creed can be stretched to the size of truth; no church can be made as large as man.

I hurt, therefore I am.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism.

Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.

Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society.

I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.

All this bit about angels and all the different religions, it's based on something. I think anything's possible. I believe in everything until it's disproved.