Quotes About Philosophy

As G. K. Chesterton is credited with saying, "The opposite of a belief in God is not a belief in nothing; it is a belief in anything.

It reminds us of a statement attributed to Voltaire: "God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to return the favor ever since.

Leo Tolstoy's nonfiction book The Kingdom of God Is Within You, the culmination of thirty years of reflections on Christianity, was banned in Russia—

one generation is the philosophy of government

tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.

It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.

I stopped trying to figure it out a long time ago. I'm never going to figure it out,any more than a normal person will figure out his or her own existence. After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are . There is no way to know why. You can have theories, but there will never be proof.

That's the question, isn't it? you said one night. Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?

But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.

Do you really exist? I blurt out. Not at all, he says with a smile, I've known that since I was four.

I guess I don't believe these thing can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why. You can have theories, but there will never be proof.

I'm never going to figure it out, any more than a normal person will figure out his or her own existence. After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why. You can have theories, but there will never be proof.

Because I have this theory that when we die, every animal that we've eaten has a chance at eating us back. So if you're a carnivore and you add up all the animals you've eaten—well, that's a long time in purgatory, being chewed.

Supongo que no creo que estas cosas puedan ser fáciles, aunque tampoco veo por qué tendrían que ser difíciles.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go. - A

solipsistic, adj. Go ahead, I thought. Go ahead. Go ahead. I got stuck there. Go ahead. Go ahead. Because I genuinely couldn't see anything after that.

Are you a vegetarian?" I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. She nods. "Why?" "Because I have this theory that when we die, every animal that we've eaten has a chance at eating us back. So if you're a carnivore and you add up all the animals you've eaten—well, that's a long time in purgatory, being chewed.

Why must we die over and over again?

It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.

No tengo narices a decirle que esa es la manera incorrecta de afrontar la vida. Siempre va a haber más preguntas. Cada respuesta desemboca en más preguntas. La única manera de sobrevivir es dejar alguna sin respuesta

The boy I loved didn't know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn't know if any of us existed

Think of a ball of steel as large as the world, and a fly alighting on it once every million years. When the ball of steel is rubbed away by the friction, eternity will not even have begun.

To appreciate the real value of marriage you have to discard the superficial idea of repetition as something boring and negative, and see it as, on the contrary, something liberating and positive -- the secret of happiness, no less. That's why B, in Either/Or, begins his attack on A's aesthetic philosophy of life (and the melancholia which goes with it) by defending marriage, and urging A to marry.