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Quotes About Philosophy

If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides.
~ Unknown
Everything will pass. The wise Man knows this from the start, and has no regrets.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Nothing is innocent, and nothing is insignificant, it's all a big endless puzzle.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
zrozumia?am, ?e smutek jest wa?nym s?owem w definicji ?wiata. Le?y u podstaw wszystkiego, jest pi?tym ?ywio?em, kwintesencj?.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Ludzie my?l?, ?e ?yj? bardziej intensywnie ni? zwierz?ta, ni? rosliny, a tym bardziej - ni? rzeczy. Zwierzeta przeczuwaj?, ?e ?yj? bardziej intensywnie ni? ro?liny i rzeczy. Ro?liny ?ni?, ?e ?yj? bardziej intensywnie ni? rzeczy. A rzeczy trwaj?, i to trwanie jest bardziej ?yciem ni? cokolwiek innego.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Nie ma tu nikogo, Bóg stworzy? ?wiat i umar? z wysi?ku.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
In reality, movement doesn't exist. Like the turtle in Zeno's paradox, we're heading nowhere, if anything we're simply wandering into the interior of a moment, and there is no end, nor any destination.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Whose intellect can have had the audacity to judge who is better, and who worse?
~ Olga Tokarczuk
What is life, after all if not dancing on graves?
~ Olga Tokarczuk
I realized that sorrow is an important word for defining the world. It lies at the foundation of everything, it is the fifth element, the quintessence.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
?wiat móg? powsta? tylko dlatego, ?e Bóg go opu?ci?. Najpierw by?o co?, a potem tego zabrak?o. To jest ?wiat. ?wiat ca?y jest brakiem.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Are you asleep?' he asked. 'Are you religious?' I had to put the question. 'Yes,' he replied proudly. 'I'm an atheist.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Who divided the world into useless and useful, and by what right?
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Everything about my own face that seemed to me familiar and obvious had vanished; what remained was a distinctive scattering of dots that symbolized the planets set against the celestial vault. I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskona?o?? form nieprecyzyjnych.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
S gledišta prirode nema korisnih i nekorisnih bi?a. To je samo glupavo razlikovanje koje primjenjuju ljudi." str. 156.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
To my mind, Death should be followed by the annihilation of matter. That would be the best solution for the body. Like this, annihilated bodies would go straight back into the black holes whence they came. The Souls would travel at the speed of light into the light. If such a thing as the Soul exists.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Learning intuitively, we will immediately notice the deterministic necessity of the existence of all things. Everything that is necessary cannot be otherwise.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
It's not about whether God exists or not. It's not like that. To believe, or not to believe, that is the question.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
La morte implica la privazione del diritto al movimento, perché la vita è movimento. Il corpo ucciso smette di muoversi. L'uomo è un corpo.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Mert minél tisztább, minél élesebb a tudat, annál több benne a rettegés. (...) Ha nem tudunk róla, hogy létezünk, megszabadulunk az id?t?l és a haláltól.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
I teraz zrozumia?, sk?d bra?o si? to poczucie braku, smutek le??cy u podstaw wszystkiego, smutek obecny w ka?dej rzeczy, ka?dym zjawisku, od zawsze - nie mo?na naraz poj?? wszystkiego.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
My life's harvest is not the building material for anything, neither in my time, now, nor in any other, never.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
estamos hechos de materia y al mismo tiempo somos ajenos a ella, que estamos separados de ella.
~ Olga Tokarczuk