Quotes About Philosophy

This is what my grandmother meant when she said, "If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

Words are the clothing of our thoughts.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

But a Broom-stick, perhaps you will say, is an Emblem of a Tree standing on its Head; and pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature? His Animal Faculties perpetually mounted on his Rational; his Head where his Heels should be, groveling on the Earth.

Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. 

A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.

Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. It

que vinieron a confirmarme más en mi vieja convicción de que no existe nada demasiado irracional y disparatado que no haya sido sostenido como verdad alguna vez por los filósofos.

Indudablemente los filósofos están en lo cierto cuando nos dicen que nada es grande ni pequeño sino por comparación.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. —C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

I used to be a Christian, but I decided to follow the teachings of Jesus instead.

Ben cenneti hep bir çeÅŸit kütüphane olarak düÅŸlemiÅŸimdir.

Como instrumento de investigación filosófica, la máquina de pensar es absurda. No lo sería, en cambio, como instrumento literario y poético.

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.

Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

De qué otra forma se puede amenazar que no sea de muerte? Lo interesante, lo original, sería que alguien lo amenace a uno con la inmortalidad.

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

Los espejos y la cópula son abominables, porque multiplican el número de los hombres.

There is no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.

La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.