Quotes About Philosophy

El Sufi debe ser capaz de alternar su pensamiento entre lo relativo y lo Absoluto, lo aproximado y lo Real.

Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?

Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.

Unbelief itself is a religion with its own form of belief.

La incredulidad misma es una religión con su propia forma de creencia.

Spirituality is the essence of religion. And there is, again, an essence of spirituality; Sufism is the essence of essences.

El ruiseñor que no puede tolerar la espina, es mejor que nunca hable de la rosa.

Nihilism is best done by professionals.

Hay realidades que son infinitamente más difíciles de aceptar que la muerte.

Quién conoce el bien?. le preguntaron a Dante y él respondió: sólo quien conoce el mal.

La mejor literatura es la que está hecha de preguntas más que de respuestas, de intuiciones más que de certezas, de dudas más que de convicciones.

Porque nos suceden las cosas? ¿De veras un encuentro casual es lo menos casual del mundo, como dice Cortázar?

Vengo, mas no sé de dónde. Soy, mas no sé quién. Moriré, mas no sé cuándo. Camino, mas no sé hacia donde. Me sorprende que esté contento y ría.

Among some of the famous men educated by the Jesuits we find Bossuet, Corneille, Molière, Tasso, Fontenelle, Diderot, Voltaire, and Bourdaloue, himself a Jesuit.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

why is it all so beautiful this fake dream this craziness why?

even before trees rocks I was nothing when I'm dead nowhere I'll be nothing

even before trees rocks I was nothing when I'm dead nowhere I'll be nothing all the bad things I do will go up in smoke and so will I if there's nowhere to rest at the end how can I get lost on the way?

I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

Vice? Virtue? It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality. As Confucius says, 'Don't simply be good. Make good things happen.

It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality.

In a word, Shakespeare comes across as a bit of a biological determinist.   Toward

Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.

Like justice, it existed in theory.