Quotes About Philosophy

resurrection a dispensable preoccupation for one who had not yet lived.

Acceptance. Acceptance of the impermanence of being. And acceptance of the imperfect nature of being, or possibly the perfect nature of being, depending on how one looks at it. Acceptance that this is not a rehearsal. That this is it. (When asked what will save humanity.)

Do I look like a metaphysician?" "You look like a guy in an office. What exactly do you do there, Wilf?

I don't know. You might say what I am is basically defined by the fact that I don't know, because I can't know.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.

Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Le più grandi idee sono le più semplici.

If you accept life dully, you can go through it moving not among things but among words.

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.

Las ideas más brillantes son siempre las más sencillas.

En büyük düÅŸünceler, en basit olanlar?d?r.

It seems to me that we do live in two worlds... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and there is the spiritual one, which to the average man with his flashes of religious experience, is very often incoherant. This experience of having two worlds to live in all the time, or not all the time, is a vital one, and is what living is like.

Hayat?n belli bir düzeni yoktur, Summers. Edebiyat?n kusuru da ona bir düzen vermeye kalkmas?d?r.

Se le facce cambiavano, quando erano illuminate dall'alto o dal basso... cos'era mai una faccia? Che cos'era tutto?

Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.

I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

So there are no nontheologians; there is just good theology and bad theology.

It was a short step from the liberal Christ-the-highest-in-humanity to the Nazi Superman.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud .

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.