Quotes About Philosophy

In discarding a literal religious explanation, it becomes easy to discredit the hard-won wisdom often bundled up with it.

el más alto bien, que llamaba alegría, y frecuentemente confianza, es una mente desprovista de temor». En otras palabras, disfrutó de la vida porque había aprendido a controlar su conciencia. Demócrito no fue ni el primer ni el último pensador que se perdió en el flujo de la mente. Frecuentemente

El universo no es hostil, pero tampoco es amigable– en palabras de J.H. Holmes–; sencillamente es indiferente.»

Ask yourself whether you are happy," said J. S. Mill, "and you cease to be so." It

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them," said Epictetus a long time ago. And the great emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote: "If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.

Chance and necessity are sole rulers of beings who are incapable of reflection.

A leading philosopher in our study maintains that if a young person wants to learn philosophy these days, he or she would be better advised to become immersed in the domain directly and avoid the field altogether: "I'd tell him to read the great books of philosophy. And I would tell him not to do graduate study at any university. I think all philosophy departments are no good. They are all terrible.

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly," in the words of J. H. Holmes. "It is simply indifferent.

Hanefitai ir krikš?ionys, žydai ir magai tuš?iai jo ieškojo.Žem?je t?ra dvejopi žmon?s. Protingi, kurie neturi tik?jimo, ir tikintieji, kurie neturi proto

la muerte no tiene nada temible, la muerte es buena. Al lado de todo el mal que flagela el mundo, la muerte es la mejor amiga del hombre

Cada cual busca en sus creencias un consuelo a las contrariedades y reveses de la vida.

After reading on, I realized why she didn't tell the truth. She revealed that she was a postmodernist who didn't even like to use the word 'truth'.

proof of Leibniz's theory of Pre-established Harmony: that neither atoms nor human beings really affect each other; they just look as if they do.

As I said, as indeed Orwell said, there is unproductive vagueness, but there is also dried out precision. We need both ways of thinking. Vagueness and precision, wide focus and narrow.

This whole idea of using your hands, your back, and trading your hours for dollars is WRONG!

It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said: if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff.

to debate which came first, the chicken or the egg, is always futile.

Of two or more competing theories, the simpler theory is most likely correct.

I went to college: majored in philosophy. My father said, "Why don't you minor in communications so you can wonder out loud?"

The only permanent thing is impermanence. This was what I came up understand right then, right there, with the sun on my cheeks and the champagne on my lips. The notion that you could actually know what you want for the rest of your life is illogical and unreasonable. The best you can do is figure out what you want for lunch.

Louise: "How did you get here?" Johnny: "Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday.

Louise: "How did you get here?" Johnny: "Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday." ~From the movie Naked, written by

Theology, it turns out, is Satan's favorite game.

You can't negate negation so how can being be?