Quotes About Philosophy

suddenly. "Why do you men have to add to it? Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse?

Niemand hat je gesagt, dass das Universum normal ist.

Are we all illusions? Brief shadows thrown on a white wall for the shallow amusement of bored gods? Is this all?

Sounds like

Weltschmerz

All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.

You had a corollary to Occam's Razor," persisted Syd. "I think it went—'All other things being equal, the simplest solution is usually stupidity.

If love is the answer, what was the question?

Throughout history, great philosophical minds have grappled with the nature of identity. What makes a person a person? What combination of memory, history, imagination, experience, subjectivity, genetic substance, and that ineffable thing called the soul makes us who we are? Is who we are the same as who we believe ourselves to be?

Do you know the three great spiritual questions? he asked...Who am I?...Why am I here?...And how shall I live?

Either all of us are accidents of history or none of us are.

The constitutional disease from which I suffer," wrote the philosopher and psychologist William James, "is what the Germans call Zerrissenheit, or torn-to-pieces-hood. The days are broken in pure zig-zag and interruption.

He's been reading James Gleick, and repeats a passage to Ben by heart. "If only time could be seen whole, then you could see the past remaining intact, instead of vanishing in the rearview mirror.

The Wissenschaftslehre is Fichte's means for coming to terms with, and if possible, mitigating, the painful existential division within our own selves.

the height of human wisdom was to bring our tempers down to our circumstances

La vida es una comedia para quienes piensan y una tragedia para quienes sienten. Horace Walpole

Ética para un nuevo milenio. Si

The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that "the abundance of books is a distraction." Instead, Seneca recommended focusing on a limited number of good books, to be read thoroughly and repeatedly.

It doesn't mean,' she shrugged. 'It just is

It's exciting to hear them talking about poetry and science and philosophy—about Shakespeare and Milton; Newton and Einstein and Freud; about Plato and Hegel and Kant, and all the other names that echo like great church bells in my mind.

It doesn't mean - she shrugged. It just is - like a poem.

It doesn't mean, she shrugged. It just is - like a poem.

In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how you ought to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live.

One thing I know people will say to me is 'Are you suggesting we go back to being hunter-gatherers?'" "That of course is an inane idea," Ishmael said. "The Leaver life-style isn't about hunting and gathering, it's about letting the rest of the community live—and agriculturalists can do that as well as hunter-gatherers.