Quotes About Philosophy

If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.

God is greater than God.

A day, whether six or seven years ago or whether six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in now.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

As the nineteenth-century philosopher Henry David Thoreau put it, "All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

Linearity is a reductionist's dream, and nonlinearity can sometimes be a reductionist's nightmare. Understanding the distinction between linearity and nonlinearity is very important and worthwhile. To

Love is a mistake when we're all going to die any day now.

Beliefs create reality

What if?.. What if I am all to see? What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss? What if love is only pain? And nothing can be gained by living everyday And there is no better way? What then?

Of course I believe that solipsism is the correct philosophy, but that's only one man's opinion.

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

John Maynard Keynes (d. 1946) felt similarly wistful, noting, "I should have drunk more champagne.

La seva vida potser sí que era una vida trista, però ¿no són tristes totes les vides es visquin com es visquin?

For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.

De que vale ter crença em Deus se perdemos a fé nos homens?

A morte é como o umbigo: o quanto nela existe é a sua cicatriz, a lembrança de uma anterior existência.

Quem confunde céu e água acaba por não distinguir vida e morte.

Lhe doía esse simples ensinamento: tudo é terminável, até o futuro.

A velhice é uma gordura na alma.

Não é que seja infeliz. Eu não sou é feliz. E explica: a ausência dupla de felicidade e infelicidade é ainda mais penosa que o sofrimento. O verdadeiro castigo não é o inferno com as suas chamas devoradoras. A punição maior é o purgatório eterno.

Sou feliz só por preguiça. A infelicidade dá uma trabalheira pior que doença: é preciso entrar e sair dela, afastar os que nos querem consolar, aceitar pêsames por uma porção da alma que nem chegou a falecer.

Afinal, em meio da vida sempre se faz a inexistente conta: temos mais ontens ou mais amanhãs?

I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.