Quotes About Philosophy

W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

Resignation to inevitable evils is the evil duty of us all; the

If I am a fool, I shall be a fool indeed, for I have thought on the subject more than most men.

Ha de aprender mi filosofía. Del pasado no tiene usted que recordar más que lo placentero. –No

But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before.

As it was impossible however now to prevent their coming, Lady Middleton resigned herself to the idea of it, with all the philosophy of a well bred woman, contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject five or six times a day.

ese algo propicio que sirve de consuelo a todos los que cierran los ojos cuando miran, o el entendimiento cuando razonan.

La sagesse est préférable à l'esprit, et sur le long terme, c'est elle qui aura le dernier mot.

Te peate natuke minu elufilosoofiast õppust võtma. Meenutage minevikku ainult sedavõrd, kui see rõõmu pakub.»

When we say art is unpractical, we mean that art is cut loose from immediate action.

One of the most powerful voices speaking out against the overexploitation, or even theft, of indigenous wisdom by Western corporations is the philosopher and environmental activist Dr. Vandana Shiva. Of particular concern for her is the patenting of products derived from an indigenous plant. She sees this as a new sort of colonialism: "In the old way they took over the land—now they are taking over life.

Your psychologists are not able to think in terms of a soul, and your religious leaders are not able, or refuse, to comprehend it psychologically even to its simplest degree. Metaphysics and psychology have not met, in other words.

I don't know what I mean, but I know I believe it.

One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.

It's the twenty-first century," I told Tank. "Women drive." "Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car." I didn't have a reply to that, but I thought it sounded like an okay philosophy. So I beeped the Escape locked, got into Tank's SUV, and we chugged off for my place.

How we explain coincidences depends on how we see the world. Is everything connected or do things merely co-occur? It's all in how you think.

I mean Earth. One minute you think you know where you're going, and then in a second it could all change. You don't even have to make a bad decision. You could be doing everything right, and the bad thing happens. It's like we're one of them videogames. Someone pushes a button, and BANG you're dead. It's gotta make you wonder what's next.

My father never got the memo about red meat, colonoscopies, or heart disease. His philosophy was that if you never went to the doctor, you never found out there was something wrong with you. So far it was working for him.

Seneca, the Roman philosopher. Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage.

They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?

She was starting to think there might be such a thing as karma - that repetition - maybe you lived through the same thing over and over until you stopped caring. Maybe eventually it got less intense, until it was just nothing.

And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.

I couldn't stop thinking about the body, what a hard fact it was. That philosopher who said we think, therefore we are, should have spent an hour in the maternity ward of Waite Memorial Hospital. He'd have had to change his whole philosophy. The mind was so thin, barely a spiderweb, with all its fine thoughts, aspirations, and beliefs in its own importance. Watch how easily it unravels, evaporates under the first lick of pain.