Quotes About Philosophy

One wouldn't want to be responsible for the end, but one might like to be there and know it was all over, the whole bang stupid pointless unnecessarily painful experiment

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE All during the time that Dr.

Look ahead into the past, and back into the future, until the silence.

Part of Nietzsche's appeal was that it was easy to read a great deal into his work, and people including socialists, vegetarians, feminists, conservatives and, later, the Nazis did. Sadly, Nietzsche was not available to explain himself; he went mad in 1889 and died in 1900, the year of the Paris Exposition.

Too many people, when they reject God, go on believing in the devil. Many intellectuals have a sense of evil without a confidence in good.

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas? Now, thoughts and ideas, that interests me.

Mr. Campion felt that among the ordeals by fire and by water there should now be numbered the ordeal by dinner at Socrates Close.

If you had a smattering of education you would realize that perfection of form can give validity to any sentiment, however preposterous.

Still, his question, "If there is only one model of individuation, can there be true individuality?

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.

Yet if we are to take the Lacanian account of singularity seriously, we must admit that what really counts in life is not our ability to evade chaos, but rather our capacity to meet it in such a manner as to not be irrevocably broken or demolished.

Schopenhauer once put it, we insist on living our lives "with great interest and much solicitude as long as possible, just as we blow out a soap-bubble as long and as large as possible, although with the perfect certainty that it will burst.

Lacan is concerned with lack as the ontological underpinning of human existence.

For years, I thought that if I had to be a palindrome, make me kuulilennuteetunneliluuk.

Stiu ca oamenii mor. Stiu ca atunci cand oamenii mor, cei care raman in urma lor intotdeauna se gandesc ca s-a intamplat ceva nebunesc, fiindca moartea prin natura ei, pare o nebunie . Asta se datoreaza in parte modului in cae omaniii au privit mereu moartea, de parca e ceva oarecum special, de parca fiecare persoana care moare e un erou . Vream sa murim spectaculos, nu doar sa '' pierim '' .

Madame de Staël understood literature to include philosophy, history, social and political writing.

jak?e ja b?d? umiera?, kiedy nie ?y?am ja wcale?

But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it God. So do they with their won evil, calling it the Devil.

The Greek philosopher Socrates once said, "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Very few stories convey the profound truth of his statement better than this story of Chinese Taoist origin:

she had no regrets in the way her life had turned out. She'd always believed things turned out the way they were meant to.

There aren't always answers. There isn't always a reason.