Quotes About Philosophy

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury.

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

I believe a lot in destiny and I think that if something didn't happen, it was for a reason.

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.

Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.