Quotes About Philosophy

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

V? e team? de consecin?ele grave ale actelor dumneavoastr? ?i atunci inventa?i o moral? sau o filosofie prin care v? pute?i dispensa de ele.

Saint-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince is a book all French people know well. It can be read in an hour but is packed with timeless wisdom.

Truly, he who is yonder will be a wise man.

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

Svejedno sad, prije ili poslije! Zlo je uvijek

Sve je lapidarno, sve stoji na ne?emu, sve ima svoju podlogu, ukorijenjeno je, sve ima tri dimenzije. Žive?i tako, ?ovjek bi i sam mogao postati trodimenzionalan, vratiti se natrag do Euklida, razviti se natrag do stvarnog dodirivanja tvari i sam se pretvoriti ponovno u tvar!

She could only pass on to them the philosophy which sustained her throughout her life. She could teach them to face whatever came with calmness and courage, to love their families and their friends with unswerving loyalty, and to relish the lovely face of the countryside in which they lived. It might seem a humdrum, day-to-day set of values, but Dolly Clare knew from long experience that they could carry a man bravely through a lifetime's vicissitudes.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Não faz sentido... A maneira como você fala não é humana... Nada disso é humano, apenas ciência e livros, coisas presas em garrafas e caixas. O que você sabe sobre amar alguém?

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?

Finding the answer to an eternal question creates bigger questions.

Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

To those who accept everything, happiness. To those who resist everything, glory.

Maybe this was the meaning of life: to live in the darkness of Plato's cave and stare endlessly into the void, but to make pancakes and watch Woody Allen movies and look at the sun coming through the skylights. Those were the comforts of not having true knowledge of the world, but of being a part of it and being amazed by it.

if I were to ever have enough material or the philosophical mind to write a book about what a good life ought to be, my thesis would be simply this: A good life is one that has managed to turn anxiety into hope, and fear into success. And that is what I call total virtue.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.