Quotes About Philosophy

The worthiest among human beings, said Diogenes according to Stobaeus (3.86.19), are those who despise learning and prefer a state of ignorance-ignorance understood not in the sense of not knowing anything, but in the sense of dispensing with unnecessary learning and acquiring only the knowledge that is sufficient for a good and simple life. This is what Diogenes identified as the only meaning and purpose of philosophy.

Schopenhauer once said: the life of one dog may be worth more than the lives of many human beings.

FRASES A boa frase também é uma maneira de conviver com o inexprimível. Dá-se nome às coisas para domá-las.

La felicidad cabe en tres principios, a cuál más simple: vivir en el presente, valerte solo de ti mismo para ser feliz y permanecer impasible ante la adversidad.

El arte es el intento de explicar lo inefable.

pensar supone siempre un riesgo, y que el mejor lugar para filosofar está precisamente en la frontera entre la luz y las tinieblas, en ese claroscuro donde todo es incierto, y al lado mismo del vacío, entre lo estable y lo precario, allí donde las palabras se juntan un momento en tropel, prefiguran un edificio de clarividencia y se precipitan luego en el olvido. "El abismo es el ágora de nuestro tiempo" solía decir mientras se columpiaba en el alféizar.

O sea qué las cosas que no piensan no se pueden asustar?

Me parece que la duda y la incertidumbre son mucho más importantes que el tener razón.

I'm hurling all the little joys against the greater sadness. The sadness is a giant weight. It presses down. Its mean: "What's the point?

Every man's personal proverb about himself is: "Whatever is, is right, in the best of all possible people." The

As your Zen says, go with the flow, even if the flow is meaningless.

Ein Verständiger nimmt alles wie es ist, behilft sich damit wie er kann und hält nichts Unvermeidliches für unerträglich.

We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.

I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.

Never rail at the storms, the furious winds, the biting frosts and snows...Bright days and dark days are both expressions of the great mystery.

He was his usual philosophic self and tried very hard to explain to me that although life was stained with agony, this was necessary. That scars only concealed, and finally helped to reveal, an essential peace. He said that what we, who pass so swiftly, experience as songs of love or cries of pain are only overtones to a single note in a very much larger harmony.

Dios hizo las nalgas para coger golpes.

He says to us: They don't really do anything. Then he adds: But of course there is not a lot for them to do.

I had never before thought so clearly about all the scenes that took place when I wasn't there to witness them. And then, I had a stranger and less pleasant thought: not only was I not necessary to those scenes, and not necessary to those lives that continued to go on without me, but in fact, I was not necessary at all. I didn't have to exist.

A bad God is worse than no God at all.

It is true that even to the heathen death did not end all. They believed in something after death, but they knew not what--a vague, shadowy, unsatisfactory immortality.

It is not possible even to state the doctrine of an atheistic creation without using the language of theism in the statement.

He who looks for the worst in men will not be without belief in a personal devil; he who looks for the best in men will not be without faith in a personal God.