Quotes About Philosophy

Vise je stete naneseno zivotu zbog sprecavanja grijeha, nego zbog grijeha.

vedra ni zbog ?ega, misao ni o ?emu...

Zašto se smatra da su knjige pametne ako su gorke?

Najteže je objasniti ono što je najjednostavnije.

She said that the issues were no longer so important to her and it was life itself that counted most of all.

Why did you bother creating me, he wanted to ask. Why bother giving me a brain and a realization of how miserable existence can be? Why did you invent creatures who die, and worse, who know they are going to die? What is the point of so unkind an act of creation?

Descartes walks into a bar. The bartender says, 'Do you want a drink, sir?' And Descartes says, 'I think not.' And then he disappears.

The Kadetskys were atheists—"lowercase a," her father always said, afraid that deification could slip into a nuance of typography.

When you gaze into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes into you. (~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

Omnia Mundi Fumus et Umbra All in the World is Smoke and Shadow –Latin motto

Waldo Emerson may have been a prize catch—"mine own angel-man," Lidian called him in an early letter to her sister. Yet becoming the wife of the free-lance philosopher also required "the giving up of an existence she thoroughly enjoyed," as one of the Emerson children later wrote, describing their mother's transformation from self-sufficient intellectual to genius domi.

To have a poorly understood disease is to be brought up against every flaw in the U.S. health care system; to collide with the structural problems of a late-capitalist society that values productivity more than health; and to confront the philosophical problem of conveying an experience that lacks an accepted framework.

To have a poorly understood disease is to be brought up against every flaw in the U.S. health care system; to collide with the structural problems of a late-capitalist society that values productivity more than health; and to confront the philosophical problem of conveying an experience that lacks an accepted framework. Even

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily, La Rochefoucauld wrote.

Marx was an astronomer of history, not an astrologer.

every Chinese person is familiar with Kongzi, or 'Master Kong', as Confucius is known in Chinese.

All is flux, nothing stays still, as Heraclitus said. By the time I wrote this, everything has changed in the universe; everything but the taste of the cakes baked at home!

All the world is believers! They just believe in different absurdities!

All truths can be changed! Put this brave idea to the centre of your beliefs! All truths can be changed!

Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream.

Are you cold when you are happy? Are you cold when you are unhappy? Then you are a wise man! Wisdom makes man cool and calm. Wise man is cool and calm!

As long as death exists, men will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing!

Ask the river, where it comes from? You will get no answer. Ask the river, where is it going? You will get no answer, because the river lives inside this very moment; neither in the past nor in the future, in this very moment only!