Quotes About Philosophy

Socrates "Life, he declared, is only worth living if you think about what you are doing. An unexamined existence is all right for cattle, but not for human beings.

The best way to eliminate all suffering in the world would be to eliminate all sentient life. If there were no living things capable of feeling pain, then there would be no pain.

As soon as you start to doubt your own existence, the act of doubting proves that you exist as a thinking thing. This

Pyrrho "You shouldn't rely on what you believe to be true. You might be mistaken. Everything can be questioned, everything doubted. The best option, then, is to keep an open mind. Don't commit, and you won't be disappointed.

Mill was very clear on this point: offence should not be confused with harm.

the mind shaping reality just is reality. There is nothing beyond it. But this did not mean that reality remained in a fixed state. For Hegel, everything is in a process of change, and that change takes the form of a gradual increase in self-awareness, our state of self-awareness being fixed by the period in which we live.

Marx's main interest was in economic relationships since in his view they shape everything that we are and can become.

No es posible pensar sistemáticamente sin escribir.

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

But yet with all this, although, of course, one may admit this, that and the other, may even... and after all, where aren't there incongruities?

Despair at not reaching ideal perfection are among the reasons given. Again it is said.

What the . . . Look, Panas, the moon's gone." "So it is," kum agreed phlegmatically. "Right, and you just accept it, like that's the way it should be?" "Well, what else can I do about it?" "What devil has done this to the moon, I want to know? May he never have a shot of vodka in the morning,

107] Comme on dirait un gobe-mouche, un désœuvré, un oisif, qui bat l'eau pour faire des ronds, qui fume pour faire quelque chose et ne fait autre emploi de ses dix doigts que de soutenir le tuyau de sa pipe de l'air du monde le plus préoccupé.

?airin i?i sinsice dünyan?n pazar yerine ula?mak de?ildir. O, sessiz bir ke?i? gibi dünyada ya?ar ama oraya ait de?ildir...

By watching him, one could verify the truthfulness of Francis Bacon's statement about people who, thanks to their inclination toward philosophy, became veritable owls who could only see in the darkness of their own conclusion and remained blind in the light of reality, particularly when it came to seeing the obvious.

Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

These inbred pinheads are the only people you could find in the world to agree with your philosophies. (In reference to Wally George's largely redneck audience.)

Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandfather!' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree?' And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied: 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss?

All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?

Act only on the maxim which you can will as a law for all rational beings," and "Act so as to treat rational beings always as ends in themselves and never as means only." Kant

È il destino che gentilmente abbassa il predellino della sua antiquata carrozza e mi tende la mano per aiutarmi a salire, ma a pensarci, e a pensarci seriamente, si arrivava a uno sciocco calembour: il destino mi tende il piede, mi fa lo sgambetto per atterrarmi, per mettermi al tappeto... A volte mi dicevo persino: forse hai pensato troppo in tutta la tua vita. Gli altri non pensano e vivono felici.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.