Quotes About Philosophy

In a similar vein, Taoism identifies freedom with wu wei: acting without acting.

A zoologist from another universe, where we can suppose the two laws do not apply, might justifiably classify most earthly fauna as subspecies of worm. We are superstructures built on and around our alimentary canal — on and around the worm that we once were.

The meaning of life — that is something for a simpler time.

Nietzsche tells us: be strong. What does not kill me makes me stronger.

Running, I shall argue, is a way of understanding what is important or valuable in life.

The place that gave us the marathon also gave us philosophy. That place was the city-state of Athens in the fourth and fifth centuries BCE.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. —ARISTOTLE

Gandhi called his overall method of nonviolent action Satyagraha. This translates roughly as "Truth-force.

We own nothing in our lives but perspective.

After all, the Beatitudes don't tend to look a lot like modern Christianity. We choose a political team. We select a denominational preference. We hitch our cart to a branch of philosophy. Anyone that disagrees is quickly and succinctly judged, and simultaneously disregarded as worthless. Big problem with that approach. We are supposed to be loving those who don't agree with us to Jesus—and you can't love those whom you deem worthless.

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

the wealth created by the reduction economy was not one of material things but of time.

An investment philosophy is a set of beliefs about: the nature of investment reality: how markets work, why prices move; a theory of value, including how value can be identified, and what causes profits and losses; and the nature of a good investment.

He said he was both Muslim and Taoist.

was mentally creating a God in the image and likeness of humans.

If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink.

The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.