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Quotes About Philosophy

What if I've been wrong all these years? he thought. What if the infinite universe does not have a personal grudge against me?
~ Woody Allen
She taught me philosophy and I developed a crush on it. We read together and hired a student from Columbia to come in once a week and discuss a different great work. But the arguments we had over free will and monads, while heated, were never as combatative as the ones we had over our marriage. I knew I was in trouble when, in one philosophical discussion, Harlene proved I didn't exist. I
~ Woody Allen
Not believing in a hereafter, I really can't see any practical difference if people remember me as a film director or a pedophile or at all. All that I ask is my ashes be scattered close to a pharmacy.
~ Woody Allen
They asked me my goal in life. I said, to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race and see if it could be mass-produced in plastic.
~ Woody Allen
The truth is you never know when you have to rely on Aristotle or Confucius when faced with choosing to hit a lamppost or running over a man coming from Zabar's with fresh bagels.
~ Woody Allen
Ã…Å¡mier? ma równie? swojÄ… dodatniÄ… stronÄ™ - to jedna z tych paru rzeczy, które dajÄ… siÄ™ zrobi? z równÄ… Å'atwoÅ›ciÄ…, z jakÄ… przychodzi uÅ'o?y? siÄ™ spa?.
~ Woody Allen
We had some fine chats about Jesus, Homer, and the Rig Veda from a strictly automotive point of view.
~ Woody Allen
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
~ Woody Allen
I am happy in my marriage. I am happy with my family but you can never be happy on this planet. We are dumped into a bad situation. Human existence is precarious, terrifying and pointless." Woody Allen, May 24, 2020.
~ Woody Allen
Vesmír je pouhou prchavou pÃ…â"¢edstavou v Boží mysli - pÄ›knÄ› nepÃ…â"¢íjemné pomyÅ¡lení, zvláÅ¡tÄ› když ?lovÄ›k právÄ› složil zálohu na byt. V??ná nicota nevadí, pokud jste na to oble?eni. Kdyby jen Dionýsos z?stal naživu! Kam by se chodil najíst? Nejen, že neexistuje žádný B?h, ale zkuste sehnat o víkendu instalatéra.
~ Woody Allen
I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I have been in the red all my life.
~ Woody Guthrie
The major difference between human and other life forms on our planet is our ability to reason and to question. For just a moment, try to deliberately free your mind from what you have been told about religion, evolution, birth, death, God, and other concepts you have about why you're here on earth.
~ Wu Wei
When anything happens to you that seems unfortunate, even if it is hurtful or takes something precious from you, see it as a beneficial occurrence.
~ Wu Wei
Desde cuándo los sentimientos meramente irracionales precisan de razones para joderle a uno la existencia?
~ Xavier Velasco
but that it is only the writings and precepts of the philosophers and other fine writers that are the true riches, because they enrich with virtue the minds of those that possess them. Euthydemus
~ Xenophon
Socrates replied: One thing to me is certain, Antiphon; you have conceived so vivid an idea of my life of misery that for yourself you would choose death sooner than live as I do.
~ Xenophon
That the Life of Man may at all Times and Seasons, even in Afflictions, and in all Sorts of Circumstances, be universally employed in the Practice of Philosophy.
~ Xenophon
Things didn't turn out the way they're supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
~ Yann Martel
Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?
~ Yann Martel
Things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
~ Yann Martel
It's not atheists who get stuck in my caw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We all must pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we... But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as means of transportation.
~ Yann Martel
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is ken to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
~ Yann Martel
Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.
~ Yann Martel
Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
~ Yann Martel