Quotes About Philosophy

?nsan mutsuz oldu?u andan itibaren ahlakç? olur.

since the beauty of human beings is not like the beauty of things,

Every day I set less store on intellect.

Nature, like the catastrophe at Pompeii or the metamorphosis of a nymph, freezes us into an accustomed cast of countenance. In the same way, the intonations of our voice express our philosophy of life, what one says to oneself at each moment about things.

After all, my dear fellow, life, as Anaxagoras has said, is a journey.

Some philosophers argue that the external world does not exist and that it is only within ourselves that our lives evolve. Be that as it may, love, even in its humblest beginnings, is a striking example of how little reality means for us. If I had had to draw, describe or inventory the details of Mlle d'Éporcheville's features from memory, or even to recognize her in the street, I would have found it impossible.

Les faits ne pénètrent pas dans le monde où vivent nos croyances, ils n'ont pas fait naître celles-ci, ils ne les détruisent pas.

bij alles wat het stempel draagt van de werkelijke dood, die zo verschilt van zijn logische en abstracte mogelijkheid ...

praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator. And I was well aware, too, that it was not merely a work of art

Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you.

Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die.

Ne dis pas : je vis maintenant, je mourrai demain. Ne divise pas la réalité entre la vie et la mort. Dis : maintenant je vis et je meurs.

No será, Camila, que al fin y al cabo el sentido de la vida es vivirla? No creo mucho en las respuestas filosóficas: todo se resume en vivirla entera y vivirla bien.

Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the Old One. I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.

Lucretius wrote in The Nature of Things: Especially since this world is the product of Nature, the happenstance Of the seeds of things colliding into each other by pure chance In every possible way, no aim in view, at random, blind, Till sooner or later certain atoms suddenly combined So that they lay the warp to weave the cloth of mighty things: Of earth, of sea, of sky, of all species of living beings.

We explain the world the way we think about it. There's no way out of our minds.

and [thanks] to Ludmila Parks for explaining to me that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have read the Brothers Karamazov and those who have not.

Vas a vivir siempre joven, según la teoría de Denevi. Decime, ¿sabés quién es Marco Denevi?

Escoffier, whose philosophy was "Good food is the basis of true happiness.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.