Quotes About Philosophy

After the day's active life, we spend at least a few hours quietly to develop our aesthetic, theoretical, and spiritual understanding of the way of life. By either reading, writing, performing, or thinking and meditating, we should continuously refine our personality and deepen our understanding of art, literature, science, philosophy, religion, and various other arts.

My father was someone that I always looked to for guidance. I sought to emulate his beliefs and his actions. He was a former Jesuit Catholic priest turned professor and scientist. My father led by word and by deed. He taught me ethics and morality through the study of philosophy, especially that of Socrates.

Philosophize means 'feel-loss-of-eyes' because with open eyes you see only illusions and when you shut them and internalize, you understand the truth, the whole picture and the philosophy of all. Withdraw all your senses and internalize, let there be inner wakefulness, and MickeyMize.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

Por que en ti reconocemos al que proclamo la mas grande de las libertades humanas; la libertad de dudar, y por que moriste entre inmortales, orgullosos de ser mortal...!

Porque en ti reconocemos al que proclamo la mas grande de las libertades humanas; la libertad de dudar, y porque moriste entre inmortales, orgulloso de ser mortal...!

However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.

For if he like a madman lived,At least he like a wise one died.

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.

Consciousness is a disease.

I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to."

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid-in which case all comment is superfluous-or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

lo más liberador del arte es que le hace a uno dudar de que exista.

Leer, leer, leer; ¿seré lectura mañana también yo? ¿Seré mi creador, mi criatura, seré lo que pasó?

A mí me sobra el cuerpo, Orfeo, me sobra el cuerpo porque me falta alma

To say that everything is idea or that everything is spirit, is the same as saying that everything is matter or that everything is energy, for if everything is idea or spirit, just as my consciousness is, it is not plain why the diamond should not endure for ever, if my consciousness, because it is idea or spirit, endures forever.