Quotes About Philosophy

This is everything I wanted, so why am I not happy? So what was Schopenhauer's answer? Well, if wanting things was the problem, the answer had to be in giving things up. In his language, the cause of suffering is intensity of will.

Letters to a Young Poet—Rainer Maria Rilke Poems—Emily Dickinson Henry David Thoreau's journal When Things Fall Apart—Pema Chödrön The House at Pooh Corner—A. A. Milne Bird by Bird—Anne Lamott Meditations—Marcus Aurelius Tao Te Ching—Laozi Serious Concerns—Wendy Cope Dream Work—Mary Oliver

because they believed in free will. Ha! Humans

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely. 'You're quoting Camus.' 'You got me.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

As Montaigne put it, "He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely. 'You're quoting Camus.' 'You

as Nietzsche put it: "The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either.

You know, the age thing. I have generally found men to be quite a disappointment. Montaigne said that the point of life is to give yourself to yourself.

Bertrand Russell wrote that 'To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead'. Maybe

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely.

She remembered studying Aristotle as a first-year Philosophy student. And being a bit depressed by his idea that excellence was never an accident. That excellent outcomes were the result of 'the wise choice of many alternatives

On both sides of her family there had been an unspoken belief that life was meant to fuck you over.

No men and women in heaven?" he heard a soldier behind him grumble. "If I ain't a man anymore, how's that different from just being dead?

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason. 2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right. 3. Charity is immoral. 4. Pay for your own fucking schools.

Words originated, as did the concept of God, with our species.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.

Miracles do not happen.

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday; I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.

And amongst us one,Who most has suffered, takes dejectedlyHis seat upon the intellectual throne.