Quotes About Philosophy

What nourishes me, destroys me

Quod Me Nutrit Me Destruit.

The only way to conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.

The friend of wisdom is also a friend of the myth. —ARISTOTLE

Ein ewiges rätsel will ich bleiben mir und anderen

The scientific method, I think, is the highest philosophical height that mankind has ever produced. It seeks constantly to disprove itself. What other philosophy is there that does that?

What's happened, happened. Which is an expression of faith in the mechanics of the world. It's not an excuse to do nothing.

Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, "That a man should wake each morning and believe deep in his heart that he will live forever, even though he knows that he is doomed.

To aspire to life forever would be to acquire living at the expense of life.

He breathed in and felt that the air existed, certainly, as it circulated in and filled out two lunglike shapes, but what did that mean? One could have an entire face - something he wasn't sure he had right now - and still not exist.

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Joy, anger, grief, delight, worry, regret, fickleness, inflexibility, modesty, willfulness, candor, insolence—music from empty holes, mushrooms springing up in dampness, day and night replacing each other before us, and no one knows where they sprout from. Let it be! Let it be!

People suppose that words are different from the peeps of baby birds, but is there any difference, or isn't there?

The sound of water says what I think.

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.

There are two ways to look at life. The first view is that nothing stays the same and that nothing is inherently connected, and that the only driving force in anyone's life is entropy. The second is that everything pretty much stays the same (more or less) and that everything is completely connected, even if we don't realize it.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.