Quotes About Philosophy

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Este incredibil cât de complet? este iluzia care ne face s? credem c? frumuse?ea este în genere bun?tate.

One might murder and steal and yet be happy

I have hundreds of roubles that I don't know what to do with, and she stands there in a tattered coat and looks at me timidly," thought Pierre. "And what does she need money for? As id this money can add one hair's breadth to her happiness, her peace of mind? Can anything in the world make her or me less subject to evil and death? Death, which will end everything and which must come today or tomorrow - in a moment, anyhow, compared with eternity.

The question was summed up for him thus: "If I do not accept the answers Christianity gives to the problems of my life, what answers do I accept?

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in the world in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree

But does it make any difference now?" he thought. "And what will be there, and what has been done here? Why was I so sorry to part with life? There was something in this life I didn't and still don't understand...

Some mathematician has said that enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in the finding it.

Let the dead bury their dead; but, while we are alive, let us live.

By faith it appears that in order to understand the meaning of life I must renounce my reason, the very thing for which alone a meaning is required.

The example of syllogism that he had learned in Kiseveter's logic - Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal - had seemed to him all his life correct only as regards Caius, but not at all as regards himself. In that case it was a question of Caius, a man, an abstract man, and it was perfectly true, but he was not Caius, and was not an abstract man.

without knowing who I am and why I'm here it is impossible to live. Yet I cannot know that and therefore I cannot live

Y en lugar de una respuesta todo lo que se obtiene es la misma pregunta planteada de una forma mucho más compleja.

There is nothing certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but all-important.

We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?

We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand). The more we try to explain such events in history reasonably, the more unreasonable and incomprehensible do they become to us.

What am I? And where am I? And why am I here?

Without knowing what I am, and why I am here, it is impossible to live. Yet I cannot know that, and therefore I can't live,' he said to himself.

Totu?i, acum, via?a mea, întreaga mea via??, independent de ceea ce poate s? mi se întâmple într-un moment anume, ea nu numai c? nu e lipsit? de în?eles ca alt?dat?, dar are un sens v?dit: al binelui pe care îl pot pune în ea.

The question how to live had hardly begun to grow a little clearer to him, when a new, insoluble question presented itself—death.

If we allow that human life can be governed by reason, the possibility of life is annihilated

A man who does not understand the benefit of suffering does not live a clever and true life.

Well, what of it? I've not given up thinking of death. It's true that it's high time I was dead; and that all this is nonsense. It's the truth I'm telling you. I do value my idea and my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.

When I am not, what will there be? There will be nothing. Then where shall I be when I am no more? Can this be dying?