Quotes About Philosophy

Nihil sub sole novum

And this is either a completely disastrous question or the most sensible one I've ever asked in all my life.

Penso che in questo caso dovremmo chiamarla ironia della sorte, più che divina provvidenza. Sì, ma perché vuoi darle un nome? E se fossero la stessa cosa?

I have to say I personally have never drawn such a sharp line between 'good' and 'bad' as you. For me: that line is often false. The two are never disconnected. One can't exist without the other. As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how.

only truths that matter to me are the ones I don't, and can't, understand.

La belleza es terror. Temblamos ante todo lo que llamamos bello.

That life—whatever else it is—is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and grovel to it.

happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end—and yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it's possible to play it with a kind of joy?

He's always up in the clouds with Plato or something.

Probably I'll be dead soon.

Because I don't care how often or willingly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat. Because here's the truth: life is catastrophe

The Scriptures, beginning with the Book of Judges, teach a philosophy of human government, which you will find was true of God's people and which has been true of every nation. The first step in a nation's decline is religióus apostasy, a turning from the living and true God. The second step downward for a nation is moral awfulness. The third step downward is political anarchy.

screw the diamonds, they're just dirt with an attitude.

Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.

It is poor philosophy to say we will believe nothing unless we can understand everything!

The poorest Englishman who understands his Bible knows more about religion than the wisest philosophers of Greece and Rome.

Marx, Engels, and Lenin have carried on the tradition of rational and non-mystical approach to all human problems; this is the tradition of the best Greek philosophers and the founders of modern science. Careful analysis; separation of factors; the following of causes into their effects; reliance on experiments; all are taken over into Marxism and provide it with a hard scientific core. There is nowhere any pandering to special intuitions or spiritual experiences.

The majority of men could sooner be brought to believe themselves a piece of lava in the moon than to take themselves for a self.

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

When all else fails, philosophize.

I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?

As G. K. Chesterton bemoaned, once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

2. Propositional knowledge.