Quotes About Philosophy

Does everybody have a point at which they have to look in the mirror and ask themselves some of the bigger questions? Is it possible to go through life without ever doing that?

Buddha teaches that there are many causes and many conditions and always refers to causes and conditions in the plural, never just as cause and effect. We are presented with a very complex picture of how things work.

It's a journal, Reynard. Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

what is the nature of reality?

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.

Thought is made in the mouth.

I am writing a manifesto and there's nothing I want, and yet I'm saying certain things, and in principle I am against manifestos, as I am against principles.

Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker

Whatever depends on conditions Is empty of inherent existence, What excellent instruction could there be, More amazing than these words?

Murray Rothbard.

when asked how he could remain so calm in a clutch situation: "Ten million years from now, when the sun burns out and the Earth is just a frozen snowball hurtling through space, nobody's going to care whether or not I got this guy out.

Good and evil keep happening in this world. It just takes a little longer for us to take the bad in our stride. And just when we think we've come to terms with bad, we're shocked to be haunted by that one query whose answer is ever as elusive - why on earth did it have to happen to me ?

Years had passed, and years had a bad name: a verse of Horace floated into his mind: Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes; eripuere jocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum… and for a moment he tried to make a tolerable English version; but his The years in passing rob us of our delight, of merriment and carnal love, of each in turn, all sport and dining out… did not please him and he abandoned the attempt.

Yet whether wisdom can be any more profitably pursued than happiness is a question.

but the truth is, the more hours I spend in contemplation, the less I know about God-and the more I realize how arrogant it is for us poor humans to squeeze the Infinite into our limited definitions.

Religion is a light bulb, created by man to help him to see in the dark.

The fashion for French philosophers in the American universities has always been a fashion for the wrong philosophers.

nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothing to know.

One can only worry so much, however; then one becomes philosophical. I suppose philosophy is merely sublimated worry.

La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ¿Qué interés puede tener para nadie?

My dear man, wisdom is a primitive concept," he had told him. "What we want now is knowledge.

God is neither good nor bad, neither moral nor immoral, he is unmoral;

Some say that the self endures after death, some say it perishes. Both are wrong and their error is most grievous.