Quotes About Philosophy

It's a confusing sort of thing. he said. What is? Life.

The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom," he said, and turned for the door.

Apocalypse isn't an event," Nemesis murmured. "It is a frame of mind.

Got to die of something," Giraldi observed. "Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.

We think of life as solid and are haunted when time tells us it is a fluid. Old Heraclitus couldn't have stepped in the same river once, let alone twice.

I lean against the rail and think there much be such a thing as beautiful anxiety.

Nous sommes imprégnés de cynisme, d'explications psychologiques ou autres, mais la vie est toujours là, ainsi que son essence inacessible, son cycle aussi sûrement installé qu'autrefois.

Søren Kierkegaard

There can be a wonderful substratum of thinking going on beneath the banal tonnage of human behavior. Perhaps

It was today—rather yesterday I think—that he told me it was important not to accept life as a brutal approximation.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

No one has figured out how accidental is the marriage of blasphemy and fate.

We think of life as a solid and are haunted when time tells us it is a fluid.

I think there are lots of ways of leading very good lives and growing spiritually. This process of growth goes on whether we believe it or not.

Years later, Philip mused, "In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.

a heck of a lot of things are bound to go wrong in a world as big as this one. And if there's an answer to why it's that way - and there ain't always - why, it's probably not just one answer by itself, but thousands of answers.

Now if 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind.

You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile

Maybe it's all too simple for the big brains to figure it out. What if the hokey-pokey is really what it's all about?

I'm growing older but not up, my metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck. Let the hands of time blow over my head, I'd rather die while I'm living, then live while I'm dead...

I know what nothing means, and keep on playing.

I am what I am. To look for 'reasons' is beside the point.

Tell me," a rabbi asked Daniel Bell when he said, as a child, that he did not believe in God. "Do you think God cares?")