Quotes About Philosophy

If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Y sacaréme la niebla el turbio zumo oscuro del traspienso la pulpa la soborra de mente toda su gris resaca me sacaré hasta el meollo antes de que se asiente la áspera espera arena que taté teté yo y lamí y tragué yo en la sed a trago tardo largo lo hueco lo plenamente hueco y que no es más que hueco pero crece

Looking at Guy, Harriet laughed and said: 'Freedom is the recognition of necessity'.

Out in the street again, Harriet attempted philosophy: 'Wherever one is,' she said, 'the only thing certain is that nothing is certain.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity.… And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show.

Como no me he preocupado de nacer, no me preocupo de morir",

If we analyze the character for zen, we find that it combines the radical shi (to show) with the character tan (single).

We are white dew drops; If we lay ourselves just as we are On the maple leaves, We are red beads.

It is said that there are as many as one thousand seven hundred koan. They are classified according to the specific styles of the different schools in which they have been employed. In our School of Tekisui, koan problems are generally classified into hosshin (The body of Dharma), kikan (dynamism), gonsen (verbal expression), nanto (difficulty in passing through), kojo (stage of refinement), and matsugo no rokan (the final gate).

the differences between the Soto and the Rinzai sects seem to be due to differences between two major types of human beings,

The word "doubt" may be interpreted as "becoming the object of doubt itself.

The concrete methods of adjusting the mind are called susoku-kan and koan kufu21 in Japanese.

Is this love reality Or a dream? I cannot know, When both reality and dreams Exist without truly existing.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?

They were more a new set of ways of looking at the universe, supported by the math, than a set of complex mathematical formulas.