Quotes About Philosophy

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction.

It's really complicated to make something simple, but very simple to make something something complicated.

The hardest thing you need you need to learn in this world is 'how to live' for it is the only thing which is too difficult to be understood.

Don't take life too seriously, because no one gets out of it alive.

Life is very complicated, so don't try to find out answers. Because when you find answers life changes the questions.

By Three Ways We May Learn Wisdom: First, By Reflection, Which Is Noblest. Second, By Imitation, Which Is Easiest. And Third, By Experience, Which Is The Bitterest...

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

Don't always take life so seriously, nobody ever gets out Alive, anyways...

There's always a reason not to be upset, and if you give that reason more importance, you'll live life with a carefree mindset.

it has indeed been said that the highest praise of God consists in the denial of Him by the atheist, who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

the purpose of life now appeared to me as the pursuit not of truth but of loving-kindness, and

And these dreams warned me that since I wanted to be a writer someday, it was time to find out what I meant to write. But as soon as I asked myself this, trying to find a subject in which I could anchor some infinite philosophical meaning, my mind would stop functioning. I could no longer see anything but empty space before my attentive eyes, I felt that I had no talent or perhaps a disease of the brain kept it from being born.

that sense of relief which one has in reading Kant when, after the most rigorous demonstration of determinism, one finds that above the world of necessity there is the world of freedom.

C'est le malheur des êtres de n'être pour nous que des planches de collections fort usables dans notre pensée.

How I suffered from the position in which careless Nature placed us, when it instituted the separation of bodies from each other, and forgot to provide for the interpenetration of souls!

timpul meu nu-i chiar atît de pre?ios; cel care l-a f?cut, nu ni l-a vîndut.

La filosofia parla spesso di atti liberi e di atti necessari. Forse non ve n'è nessuno più completamente subìto da noi di quello che, in virtù di una forza ascensionale compressa durante l'azione, fa, quando il nostro pensiero è in riposo, risalire così un ricordo livellato agli altri dalla forza oppressiva della distrazione, e slanciarsi, perché a nostra insaputa esso conteneva più degli altri un fascino di cui ci accorgiamo soltanto ventiquattro ore dopo.

M. Verdurin replied in a hasty tone and with an embittered groan, not of grief but of irritated impatience: "Why yes, of course, but what's to be done about it, it's no use crying over spilt milk, talking about him won't bring him back to life, will it?

For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their warfare ensure the continuity of existence.

Curaram-no. Mas logo que deixou de ser louco, tornou-se idiota. Há males de que não se deve buscar a cura porque só eles nos protegem contra males mais graves.

Doubtless my books, like my fleshly being, would, some day, die. But one must resign oneself to death. One accepts the thought that one will die in ten years and one's books in a hundred. Eternal duration is no more promised to works than to men.

It is plain that the object of my quest, the truth, lies not in the cup but in myself.

Lo primero y lo más íntimo que yo sentía,..., que gobernaba todo lo demás, era mi creencia en la riqueza filosófica y la belleza del libro que estaba leyendo y mi deseo de apropiármelas, de cualquier libro que se tratara