Quotes About Philosophy

Doubt is useful for awhile. We must all pass through the garden of Gesthemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Je ne crois en rien. Certainement pas à toutes ces imbécillités religieuses. Mais un peu aux anges. Aux constellations. À mon rôle, même infinitésimal, dans le livre des causes et des effets. Il n'est pas interdit de s'imaginer partie d'un tout.

La complexité humaine ne se réduit à aucun principe de causalité.

I would have liked you better as a criminal or a terrorist than as a militant in the cause of happiness.

Manusia yang tak mau gelisah, sesungguhnya dia telah mati

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

oricat de bland si bun ar fi omul, tot are cugetul framantat dintr-o pricina sau alta.

Why had God created man's face so that he might not see it himself? 'Suppose you could see your own face, would you lose your mind? Would you become incapable of acting?' Most probably man had evolved in such a way that he could not see his own face. Maybe dragonflies and praying mantises could see their own faces.

I couldn't explain philosophy myself, and I doubt you could, either. Although it's ...' Her mother paused. 'I suppose it involves feeling something, and then using that feeling as a starting point for a train of thought. The feeling itself may be naïve, a lingering sense of wonder at something most people take for granted but you hold on to it, and think it through as far as you can. Does that sound right?

History Of Indian Philosophy, Vol. I, by Prof. Surendranath DasGupta (Cambridge University Press, 1922).

Yoga is only a means and not the end.

Who am I? The great inquiry indeed.

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it

Fantasy is reason's sweetheart.

We needed philosophical and inspirational guides to make sure we always asked the right questions and found the right answers.

He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

I do feel comforted to discover I'm not the only person on this earth who has no idea what life is for, nor what is to be done with all this time aside from filling it.

Philosophy is listening to warbling posh boys, it is being more bored than you have ever been in your life, more bored than you thought it possible to be.

Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.

I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it.

then after a few miles you arrived at a new idea, that wealth and morality are in essence the same thing, for the more money a person had, then the more goodness—or potential for goodness—a person possessed.

Since that moment, one form of crisis has collided with another, and I am no more a Stoic now than I was when I opened that ancient book. But I did come out with two invaluable intimations. Talking to yourself can be useful. And writing means being overheard.