Quotes About Philosophy

What's the point of living if we don't die at the end of it?

Isn't death a blessing? Doesn't it define the value of our lives, minute to minute, year to year?

Everything is supposed to be something. But it never is. That's the nature of existence.

If you could stretch a given minute, what would you find between its unstuck components? Probably some kind of astral madness. A bleak comprehension of the final size of things.

I had not yet learned to appreciate the slowly gliding drift of identical things; chunks of time spun past me like meteorites in a universe predicated on repetition.

Rocks are, but they do not exist.' After a pause I said, "I came across this statement when I was in college and forgot it until very recently. 'Man alone exists. Rocks are, but they do not exist. Trees are, but they do not exist. Horses are, but they do not exist.'

Only shallow people insist on disbelief. You and I know better. We understand how reality is invented. A person sits in a room and thinks a thought and it bleeds out into the world. Every thought is permitted. And there's no longer a moral or spatial distinction between thinking and acting.

The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become.

Tutto dovrebbe essere qualcosa. Ma non lo è mai. È la natura dell'esistenza.

I have become an enigma to myself. So said Saint Augustine. And herein lies my sickness.

Is it better to commit evil and attempt to balance it with an exalted act than to live a resolutely neutral life?

Is cyberspace a thing within the world or is it the other way around? Which contains the other, and how can you tell for sure?

I am a bad actor. Not for me or my camera. I see the person, not some idea he wants to make himself into. I'm all idea today. I definitely don't see it. I'm playing the idea of death. Look closely, he said.

Tyle w nich by?o chrze?cija?stwa. I tak niewiele z Chrystusa.

I want to die and be finished forever. Don't you want to die?" he said. "I don't know." "What's the point of living if we don't die at the end of it?" In

But it can't be true that he drifts from one reality to another, independent of the logic of time. This is not possible. You are made out of time. This is the force that tells you who you are. Close your eyes and feel it. It is time that defines your existence.

What's the point in living if we don't die at the end of it?

I moonlight, except there's nothing I'm moonlighting from. Moonlight is all that's out there.

What happens to good an evil in this system? Passion, envy and hate? Do they become a tangle of neurons? Are you telling me that a whole tradition of human failings is now at an end, that cowardice, sadism, molestation are meaningless terms? Are we being asked to regard these things nostalgically? What about murderous rage? A murderer used to have a certain fearsome size to him. His crime was large. what happens when we reduce it to calls and molecules?

I moonlight except that there's nothing I'm moonlighting from. Moonlight is all that's out there.

How deep is time? How far down into the life of matter do we have to go before we understand what time is?

But there are different kinds of death, David. And I prefer that kind, his kind, to the death I've been fighting all my life.

Nie mam cia?a. Jestem umys?em, ?wiadomo?ci?, samotny w wielkiej przestrzeni.

Chaque moment perdu est la vie.