Quotes About Philosophy

Sometimes my thoughts grow confused, and it is as if the forest has put down roots in me, and is thinking its old, eternal thoughts with my brain.

Los que piensan siempre tienen que renunciar a vivir, y los que viven no necesitan pensar.

Cominciamo dal fondo. Let's begin at the beginning. St. Augustine said it most clearly, We are, every one of us, going to die. Rotting is the way of all things. A tree, a cheese, a heart, a whole human chassis. Now, knowing that, understanding that, living begins to seem less important than living the way you'd like to live. Do you agree with that?

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

Reason is for rich people. We have madness.

And yet the quickest way to not live at all is to take life one day at a time. It's the way I've discovered to not do a damn thing.

I don't believe in belief.

is not gone, you're in the flatness of the deadlands. Time doesn't stop. You watch it move but you are still, like a painting with a Mona Lisa smile.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

All universal moral principles are idle fantasies.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness --- it means more to me than my life itself.

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

Who are we without our memories?

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

Mo?e i prawda, ?e postawa, jak? zajmuje ka?dy z nas wobec tego, co ogromne, co zdaje si? nienaruszalne, niewiele mówi. Ale przynajmniej wyja?nia co? w tak drobnej kwestii, jak pytanie o to, kim, do diab?a, jestem.

She wanted to think through the questions of faith herself, and she held fast to the belief that heaven on Earth would always outweigh heaven above.

the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

But the soul concerns me; and I am beginning to wonder whether it is wise or useful to spend so much time searching for one's own.

The most fertile idea of the Stoics, in my view, is their analysis of emotions as containing evaluative thoughts about what is most important for one's well-being. That view I find basically correct, though in need of a lot of further work. Their normative analysis of the emotions seems wrong to me, namely that we should get rid of them all, but they are pretty on target in their critique of anger.

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control."

EPICURUS WROTE, "Empty is that philosopher's argument by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no use in a medical art that does not cast out the sicknesses of bodies, so too there is no use in philosophy, unless it casts out the suffering of the soul.

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.