Quotes About Philosophy

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Only describe, don't explain.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

Don't for heaven's sake , be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy.

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

The reason it's important to believe in something, he said, is because you can.

People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it really fall? If a character sits in a book and no one reads it, is he truly alive? As

were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. Once, at a neighborhood dinner party, Lacy had asked him what happened if you had no expectations. You couldn't divide by zero. Did that mean if you just let yourself roll with all of life's punches, you could never be happy?

She knew, even at that young age, that you cannot separate good and evil cleanly, that they are conjoined twins sharing a single heart.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.' – HIS HOLINESS THE 14TH DALAI LAMA

And you know I don't believe in God." She moves, blocking my path. "That doesn't mean He doesn't believe in you," she says.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.' – VOLTAIRE, FOR AND AGAINST

Egyptians believed that the first and most necessary ingredient in the universe was chaos. It could sweep you away, but it was also the place from which all things start anew.