Quotes About Philosophy

La pensée ne se transmet pas à l'action. C'est une pensée qui se transmet à une pensée et une action qui en provoque une autre. La pensée agit pour autant qu'elle accepte de ne pas très bien savoir ce qui la pousse elle-même et renonce à garder la maîtrise de ses effets

Le réel doit être fictionné pour être pensé.

Ainsi le raisonnement avance-t-il droit sur ses deux pieds boiteux

Essayez, si vous le pouvez, d'arrêter un homme qui voyage avec son suicide à la boutonnière.

Yo seré un gran muerto.

Mon livre de chevet, c'est un revolver. Mi libro de cabecera es un revólver.

It is true that living offers us the answers a long time before the questions.

There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life.

If you think hundred percent logically, there is really no possibility of life.

La luna se puede tomar a cucharadas o como una cápsula cada dos horas. Es buena como hipnótico y sedante y también alivia a los que se han intoxicado de filosofía.

No hay lugar para el místico que soy dentro del ateo que represento.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

It was not reason but rather custom that was, Hume claimed, 'the guide of life' (T 652).

This suggests that there would be little plausibility to a suggestion to the effect that the remit of the philosophical man of letters, as understood by Hume, was to work towards the demise of the Christian religion.

By twenty-six Hume had completed the first two volumes of A Treatise of Human Nature, 'the masterpiece which contains all that is most important in his thought'. The Treatise, though, was 'a complete failure', and there followed years of poverty and insignificance. Hume

Hume declared that 'Our connection with each other, as men of letters, is greater than our differences as adhering to different sects or systems'. 'Let us', he continued, 'revive the happy times, when Atticus and Cassius the Epicureans, Cicero the Academic, and Brutus the Stoic, could, all of them, live in unreserved friendship together, and were insensible to all those distinctions, except so far as they furnished matter to discourse and conversation'.

Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.

What was it that Drask Silver Hand had said to him? Life is pain. Oh, how he lived just then.

If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.

I believe nothing. Nothing whatever.

Unfortunately we did not attend Voltaire's dictum to define our terms before we began. The result was disagreement on all issues.

Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, "I and my Father are One

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.