Quotes About Philosophy

The wise person must always consider and reconsider all the alternatives before jumping to the final conclusion. Furthermore, the objective views are the results of our philosophical ideologies (philideos) and the definition of our terms.

The woman lives in the present moment than a man, therefore, she must be emotional. As long as man lives in the future, he must therefore be a rational being.

Theologians have done more harm than religious beliefs. Just as metaphysicians have confused our minds with abstract concepts.

There is no time without change and there is no life without time. Not believing in time is also not believing in change.

Those who listened to the teachings of Socrates became the best philosophers. But those who studied under Plato, relied more on the rhetorical path and therefore, the greatest opportunists.

Time is still too complicated for us to comprehend and we cannot define it using our wristwatches, nor by using the big clocks on the wall.

Time, life and death are mysterious, and they will remain to be so until the day we will come to possess the key of all illusions.

To become a complete philosopher, you need to familiarize yourself with all the difficult questions.

To believe in time is to believe in change and vice versa. Those who claim that time does not exist have no idea what they are talking about, they are the disbelievers of change.

To the atheist, the world is filled with madness and crazy people who believe in superstitions that cannot even prove to be true.

To understand the philosophical ideologies of Karl Marx, you have to read between the lines.

Using the philosophical language —Some people are less rational than others because it's not given to every mind to think straight.

What benefit will I gain from knowing the clockwise and counter-clockwise phenomena? Either way, they boil down to nothing, or will eventually cancel each other out.

What is the value of cultivating a bad reputation in the universe; if the death of the flesh is certain?

What will you gain by knowing facts? —I would rather know the principles than facts. Because facts are changeable like the wind and can't be relied upon!

You can have faith without becoming religious, nor having any religion.

You can't be a realist while believing in the big bang. Drop one concept to fit with your desires.

Eliza wonders if death is not a sleep you can't wake up from but life reduced to one inescapable moment.

They WERE walking alongside the road, they WERE hit by a car, and now they ARE dead. It doesn't work. Are is present tense. Dead is -- well, dead is past, isn't it? Present tense modifying past; being modifying non-being. Language, in this instance" -- and here Miriam makes a garbled noise in her throat-- "fails.

Mastery" is an inappropriate image for depicting epistemological success; knowledge is an exercise not of power but of virtue.

To say "beyond the mountain," and to mean it, to mean, simply, beyond everything for which the mountain stands, of which it signifies the being. Somewhere, if only she could see it, there was neither nothing nor anything. And there, just there, that was the last reality.

Si vous voulez forger un athée irréductible assommez-le de principes religieux inflexibles : ça marche à tout les coups.

In fact, what we call "politics" and what we call "religion" (and for that matter what we call "culture," "philosophy," "theology," and lots of other things besides) were not experienced or thought of in the first century as separable entities. This was just as true, actually, for the Greeks and the Romans as it was for the Jews.

Gamaliel, at least as portrayed in Acts, advocated the policy of "live and let live." If people wanted to follow this man Jesus, they could do so.9 If this new movement was from God, it would prosper; if not, it would fall by its own weight. If the Romans wanted to run the world, so be it. Jews would study and practice the Torah by themselves. This, broadly speaking, had been the teaching of Hillel, a leading rabbi of the previous generation.