Quotes About Philosophy

German philosopher Hegel, whose philosophy insisted on the coherence and meaning of history. The

The potent mix of Nietzschean philosophy, psychology, history, and clinical practice was leading him into new territory

The holiness of madness was transformed into the more humanist concept of 'wisdom'.

Thales of Miletus, the first philosopher-scientist. His theory that the world had developed from one element (water) was just the beginning. This idea, once conceived, was quickly developed by Thales' pupils in Miletus – the philosophers known as the Milesian school. One of these was Anaximenes

The set of assumptions, prejudices, and mind-sets that structured and limited the thought of any particular age was referred to by Foucault as an episteme. This word derives from the same ancient Greek root as the branch of philosophy known as epistemology

Borges, who said, "Defeat has a dignity which noisy victory does not deserve.

Ambassador Noyes had another trait I had noticed in many slow-witted people: he was tremendously interested in philosophy.

was questioning one of the cardinal precepts of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

It was Muriel Spark, in her novel Memento Mori: "If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

the predominating characteristic of the Chinese was stoicism

How can we ultimately fail to twig that the apparent impiety of contemporary art is only ever the inverted image of sacred art, the reversal of the creator's initial question: why is there something instead of nothing?

By the way, who invented Peace?

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

Everywhere you looked in India there was evidence of a past that had attained mythical heights. From philosophy to architecture, few civilisations have left such an awesome record.

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.

The true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.

I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.

You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

Once someone asked me, What do you want to be your epitaph? So I said, Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.