Quotes About Philosophy

I'm not some kind of potential Job, long suffering, stiff necked, then, at last, either humble before an all-knowing almighty, or destroyed. My God doesn't love me or hate me or watch over me or know me at all, and I feel no love for or loyalty to my God. My God just is.

What was he, he wondered, that he could have anything at all but an end?

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

The absolutes the eternitiesTheir outlying districtsAre not my themeI am hungry for life and for death alsoI know what I know and I write it.

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Una civilización que niega a la muerte, acaba por negar a la vida.

If I get reincarnated…, I wanna become a clam.

God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

My fellow man I do not care for. I often ask me, What's he there for? The only answer i can find Is, Reproduction of his kind.

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

Don't think too much. Descartes may come to existence when he thinks, but you perish and vanish when you think.

If you can do something to change the circumstances, why be upset about it? And if you cannot do anything to change the circumstances, why be upset about it?

The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

Tea with us became more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.... Teaism was Taoism in disguise.

In religion the Future is behind us. In art the Present is the eternal.

How can one be so serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous?

Cómo se puede tomar al mundo en serio, siendo el mundo tan ridículo?

Tea with us became more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life

But, after all, we see only our own image in the universe-- our particular idiosyncrasies dictate the mode of our perceptions.

He entered the realm of art when he perceived the subtle use of the useless.

The Taoist and Zen conception of perfection... the dynamic nature of their philosophy laid more stress upon the process through which perfection was sought than upon perfection itself. True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete. The virility of life and art lay in its possibilities for growth.

Socrates woke to the ideal of dispassionate intelligence, Jesus to the ideal of passionate yet self-oblivious worship. Socrates urged intellectual integrity, Jesus integrity of will. Each, of course, though starting with a different emphasis, involved the other.

Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for?

Aunque las potencias nos destruyan —dijo—, ¿quiénes somos para condenarlas? Sería lo mismo que una palabra juzgara al hombre que la ha pronunciado.