Quotes About Philosophy

Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I don't reckon men are supposed to think," Sally said philosophically, as the pile of hemp rope grew at her feet. "That's why God gave 'em big muscles." Mandy tilted her head sideways for a second. "Makes as much sense as anything else." Sophie nodded. "Men do the lifting and women do the thinking. That sounds fair. I suppose God could have planned it that way.

If God is male, then male is God.

You know what? I really resent the idea that the only reason someone might be good or moral is because they're religious. I do what I do," Anne said, biting off each word, "without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require heaven or hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently, thank you very much.

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

How many hours can one person spend locked in a bathroom, looking at skin, hair, eyes. Feeling fingers, toes. And the absurdity of a belly button?

One of the basic tenets of all metaphysical systems of thought is that we create our own reality in accord with our beliefs.

I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!

Heresy is just philosophy that the establishment doesn't approve of

Maybe it's a matter of tenses. Of grammar. Our love existed, it does exist, it will exist. On the great continuum of time, perhaps it is the tenses that will cease to be. What does the scientist in you think of that?

I live an immoral life. It is immoral because it is deadly futile.

You cannot step twice into the same river, said Herakleitos. People in the past were not just like us; to pretend so is an evasion and a betrayal, turning our back on them so as to be easy among familiar things.

Plato, in his opinion, had committed too much to love.

Speak for me, Nikeratos. Someone's soul is always listening." Someone's always is, I suppose, if one only knew. Plato never forgot it.

Apollo, who understands all mysteries, says also, "Nothing too much." He is knowledge, Theseus; but She is what he knows.

Encontrar a Fedro guiando a Sócrates casi al mismo sitio, quizá lo era, le había impresionado profundamente. El árbol de amplia copa, la verde ladera en que recostarse, el agua fría al pie; sólo faltaban las ofrendas votivas y el santuario. «Concededme ser hermoso por dentro ?había suplicado Sócrates? y haced que las cosas exteriores e interiores se reconcilien».

All'inizio andai da Socrate", disse, "per il suo metodo negativo. Mi piaceva vederlo minare alla base la sicurezza degli stolti. Ecco, pensavo, un uomo che non addomestica la verità, ma la segue anche nel deserto. Perciò lo seguii a mia volta; e Socrate mi condusse dove non avevo pensato di andare".

the tenet of the philosopher that for each man there was only one perfect friend;

I saw death come for you, and I had no philosophy.

How I fevered to study the seven liberal arts: the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.

The stars flash out of the dark and disappear, but not for people to see. We're just people. And we flash into life and disappear, but not for the stars to see. They're just stars. How strange, strange, strange. Being alive, feeling, thinking __

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.