Quotes About Philosophy

Shake an aphorism, he said, and in most cases a lie falls out, leaving only a banality.)

No cries, no convulsions, nothing more than a face fixed in thought. The gods no longer existed, Christ didn't exist yet, and there was, from Cicero to Marcus Aurelius, a unique moment in which man was alone. —GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, IN AN 1861

Sartre's existentialism, where it essentially means having the chutzpah to do what it takes so that you may suit yourself—not quite the same thing as being true to yourself.)

ideology itself the perpetual enemy of realism.

the damaging notion that obscure is the way philosophy should sound.

Sartre and Camus were only two of the many thinkers about politics who, being gentiles, could stay in Paris and think about politics there if they chose. It was a dubious privilege.

a system of belief which confused the desirable and the inevitable was still a dogma.

Liberals and humanists are always saying that art is the soul of truth.

Chesterton once said, on the subject of innate human dignity, that it all depended on the presence of the holy spirit, and that it was otherwise hard to take the human body seriously, belonging as it did to a creature that nourished itself by pushing food into a hole at the bottom of its face.

Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

TOBY-CHIEN : Qu'est-ce que tu fais aujourd'hui ? KIKI-LA-DOUCETTE : Mais...rien TOBY-CHIEN ironique : Pour changer. KIKI-LA-DOUCETTE : Pardon, pour ne pas changer. Quelle est cette rage de changement qui vous possède tous ? Changer, c'est détruire. Il n'y a d'éternel que ce qui ne bouge pas. TOBY-CHIEN : Voilà déjà bien trois heures que je suis éternel.

The current philosophy was that Buddha was a communist.

So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And communism had brought him back full circle to poverty. There was a PhD dissertation waiting to be written about such a cycle.

As a boy, he had been moved by those words of the dying Socrates, suggesting that if death were just one long, unbroken, dreamless sleep, then a greater boon could hardly be bestowed upon mankind.

Prostia, dup? cum spune Pyrrhon, nu-i deloc mai prejos decât înÈ›elepciunea, de care nu se deosebeÈ™te prin nimic.

Aspasia and Xantippe in one. I

She prefers simply a life in the shape of an Apollo to that of humpbacked Pulcinello; that is her philosophy. She

He who is a sceptic in regard to faith, in regard to science, conservatism, progress, and so on, has indeed difficulty in finding anything to do. In

He who knew how to live should know how to die.

O pensamento é uma qualidade própria da alma, que a si mesma se multiplica

O pensamento é uma qualidade da alma, que a si mesma se multiplica

A guerra é mãe e rainha de todas as coisas

The immortals are mortal, the mortals immortal, each living in the other's death and dying in the other's life.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.