Quotes About Philosophy

It must be a manifestation of dying, he said to himself.

I suppose Relativism is cynical. It surely isn't idealistic. It's the result of being killed and injured and made poor and working hard for empty words.

Motion that is circular is the deadest form of the universe." Another voice said, "Time." He knew the answer to that. Time is round.

Well, following the line of least resistance, that's the rule of survival. Following, not leading." Another voice, older, said, "Yes, the followers survive the leader. Like with Christ. Not vice versa.

Uma realidade de sofrimento não é melhor que a mais interessante das ilusões?

Weltanschauung.

Men of thought, Anita said. Not men of action. It's begun to have a paralyzing effect.

So then when they rise and tend to be, the more quickly they grow that they may be, so much the more they haste not to he. —St. Augustine

Thinking this he wondered if Mozart had had any intuition that the future did not exist, that he had already used up his little time.

it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane

Place there is none; we go backward and forward, and there is no place. —St. Augustine

Only in a perfect flight from nothingness is Being to be found in all its purity. —St. Bonaventura

I'd say, Doc, I can see you under the aspect of eternity and you're dead.

Bütün hayat birdir; 'kimse bir ada deÄŸildir,' Shakespeare'in eski zamanlarda söylediÄŸi gibi.

Sound occurs in the ears. Sound does not occur in the atmosphere. It occurs essentially within the human being, and that's Descartes's great contribution to psychology and philosophy. Which is where that thing comes from where they say if a tree falls in the forest and no one's there, does it make a noise?

WITH THEM, Joe Fernwright thought, there is not life but merely a synopsis of life. We are a thread that passes through their hands; always in motion, always flowing, we slip by and are never fully grasped. The slipping away is continuous, and carries all of us with it, on and on, toward the dreadful alchemy of the tomb.

Even the most base schemes of human beings are preferable to the most exalted tropisms of machines.

I'm doomed, in the classic sense.

The dry high spirits of this destroyer of optimism make most optimists look damp and depressed.

I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.

But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it.

Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the right dictionary, you could read Nature itself. It was hardly surprising to find philosophers using the symbolism of their time to interpret knowledge that came from a mysterious source.

I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn't any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all.

The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.