Quotes About Philosophy

Philosophical concepts—those were what kept him up at night; they belonged to him.

the vastness of these contents cannot be traversed from word to word- you have to step in between the words, into the unfathomable abysses between ideas. With every step we'll slip and fall.

În ianuarie, în zilele de miercuri, la ?apte diminea?a, se vede c? lumea nu a fost creat? pentru om ?i cu siguran?? nu pentru confortul ?i pl?cerea lui.

There is only one thing we cannot have—eternal life, and, by God, whence did that concept come into our heads, that idea of being immortal?

Or to a different law that hasn't been demonstrated and that we haven't even thought of yet that says that you can doubly not exist in the same place?

Drogi Mieczys?awie (...) czy zgodzi si? pan ze mn?, ?e cz?owiek istnieje tylko w j?zyku? Wszystko poza j?zykiem jest zwierz?ce i niezró?nicowane. To j?zyk sprawia, ?e jeste?my tym, kim jeste?my.

Drevesom se zdijo ljudje ve?ni - od nekdaj se sprehajajo v senci lip po Široki cesti, niso ne negibni ne v gibanju. Za drevesa ljudje obstajajo ve?no, toda to je tako, kot da ne bi nikoli obstajali.

I realized that sorrow is an important word for defining the world. It lies at the foundations of everything, it is the fifth element, the quintessence.

Zobacz – powiedzia? do swojej kobiety, która przysiad?a na por?czy krzes?a z palcami u?o?onymi w lecznicze mudry – oto jest Nic, które zawiera niesko?czon? liczb? wymiarów wszystkiego.

O?wiecenie zaczyna si? wtedy, gdy cz?owiek traci wiar? w dobro i porz?dek ?wiata. O?wiecenie jest wyrazem nieufno?ci.

Opening his eyes, gazing at the vastness above, below, and all around, J.D. inquired, "Do you believe in immortality?" as casually as if inquiring if she believed in free trade. "I don't know. Do you?" "I don't know either. I want terribly to believe that there's a chance for such happiness as this to be carried on somehow, somewhere, if not in this life, then in the next.

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of -- the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

I have tried in my time to be a philosopher; but somehow cheerfulness was always breaking in.

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

Thus idly busy rolls their world away

His best companions, innocence and health;And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

The Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Logic is logic. That's all I say.