Quotes About Philosophy

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

We expect to foster a conservative governing philosophy consisting of limited government and respect for traditional American virtues.

I'm not a vegetarian. But I think people who are vegetarians, they are actually more virtuous than the rest of us. I think they should be admired.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.

As an owner, you have a choice. Do you want to adopt a vision that you think is real sharp and real cutting edge and could get you from good to great - has a chance - or do you want to just say the organization is not about that, and we're not going to try to adopt a new coaching philosophy and vision.

Reacting vs. responding = reflexive vs. chosen. We can choose our response, Frankl was saying, even under the specter of death.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

ultimate concerns are death, isolation, freedom, and meaninglessness

The four ultimate concerns are death, isolation, freedom, and meaninglessness

Whereas Freud believed that people are driven to seek pleasure and avoid pain (his famous pleasure principle), Frankl maintained that people's primary drive isn't toward pleasure but toward finding meaning in their lives.

At a certain point, we all have to come to terms with the unknown and the unknowable. Sometimes we'll never know why.

What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?

You've had quite an intriguing life, Your Grace," "Is there any point in having any other kind?

You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.

The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy.

Evet, hayat böyle bir ?ey i?te', diye k?z? o ho? ruh halinde tutmaya çabalayarak onaylad?. 'Büyük kuramlar geli?tiriyoruz, ruhen uyumlu olmak istiyoruz, her ?eyi k?l? k?rk yararcas?na s?namak istiyoruz, ama sonunda ba?ka hiçbir i?arete bakmadan an?n bah?ettikeliyle seçiyoruz birbirimizi.