Quotes About Philosophy

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

My work has always tried to unite the True with the Beautiful and when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the Beautiful.

By refraining from reducing multiplication to addition we are enabled through these axioms to banish continuity, which is so difficult to fix precisely, from the logical structure of geometry.

With mathematics we stand precisely at that intersection of bondage and freedom that is the essence of the human itself.

Or, we may use Cartesian co-ordinate systems from the outset:

when placed in two positions successively, realises this idea of the equality of two portions of space ; by a rigid body we mean one which, however it be moved or treated, can always be made to appear the same to us as before, if we take up the appropriate position with respect to it. I shall

Philosophy is nothing else than striving through constant contemplation and saintly piety to attain knowledge of God.

80. What is God? The immutable or unalterable good. 81. What is man? An unchangeable evil.

Biographers are not usually as explicit as philosophers such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Austin, or Moore on questions of the existence of an essential self, the extent to which a life can be lived according to a philosophical system, or the relation between acts and emotions. That is not their job – unless they are writing the Life of a philosopher. But biography is bound to reflect changing and conflicting concepts about

God is the most uninteresting answer to the most interesting questions.

Reality is a fiction with an unlimited budget.

Nothing more private than pain. It can only involve one. But who? Who is "I" in "I hurt"? The one who inflicts the pain or the one who suffers it? And does "hurt" refer to the inflicting or the suffering?

know my days are numbered, but not every day is a real number.

AM I know my days are numbered, but not every day is a real number.

The terrifying freedom of knowing that nothing, from now on, will become a memory.

Priest came with soggy offerings of comfort. God is the most uninteresting answer to the most interesting questions.

She thought there was no greater violence than the one done to meaning.

The saddest aspect of life is that there is no one on earth whose happiness is such that he won't sometimes wish he were dead rather than alive.

Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort of person who deserves to be called happy. But mark this: until he is dead, keep the word "happy" in reserve. Till then, he is not happy, but only lucky...

The tin-sheep and wooden-melon proletariat produced their papers and named their places of work. The madman with the white beard plucked at the sleeve of the policemen, opened up his folded handkerchief, and said: professor of philosophy.

Who is this? This is me. Who am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? What am I?

Sokrates' wife, Xanthippe, had in antiquity a reputation as a shrew - but being married to such a man would have tried anyone's patience, and the evidence is not conclusive.

What can you do but, as Cicero says, live hopefully, die bravely?

This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.