Quotes About Philosophy

Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the one and only thing I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell. Everything passes.

Crime and Punishment. Dostoievski. These words grazed over a corner of my mind, startling me. Just supposing Dostoievski ranged 'crime' and 'punishment' side by side not as synonyms but as antonyms. Crime and punishment-- absolutely incompatible ideas, irreconcilable as oil and water. I felt I was beginning to understand what lay at the bottom of the scum-covered, turbid pond, that chaos of Dostoievski's mind--no, I still didn't quite see...

From then on, however, I came to hold, almost as a philosophical conviction, the belief: What is society but an individual? From the moment I suspected that society might be an individual I was able to act more in accordance with my own inclinations.

Crime and punishment. Dostoievski. These words grazed over a corner of my mind, startling me. Just supposing Dostoievski ranged 'crime' and 'punishment' side by side not as synonyms but as antonyms. Crime and punishment—absolutely incompatible ideas, irreconcilable as oil and water.

Podría decirse que todavía no he comprendido lo que mantiene vivo al ser humano.

Me pregunto si soy feliz.

The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual.

Cependant, à ce moment, j'étais encore incapable de donner leur sens réel à ces mots : « Je veux mourir. » Une idée d'amusement s'y cachait.

Pour moi, le monde est insondable ; c'est un lieu terrible.

We all live a sheet of paper away from death, so we shouldn't be surprised by death.

Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes.

Submission or escape; to keep up the fair-and-square fight or compromise with lies; deception or placation; to be or not to be––which one is better? I don't know. I don't know, so it causes me suffering.

Recently I have come to understand why such things as war, peace, unions, trade, politics exist in the world. I don't suppose you know. That's why you will always be unhappy. I'll tell you why--it is so that women will give birth to healthy babies.

I stay kind to my friends and in the corner of my heart I'm always quietly thinking that 'kindness to others always comes back to oneself,' so I'm really a pathetic man.

Nihayetinde, ya?amakta oldu?una göre, mutlaka bir hilen vard?r.

We will live in perpetual struggle with the old morality, like the sun.

Hayat hiçbir zaman heyecan verici oyun dizisi de?ildir. Aç?k konu?mak gerekirse, sadece oyunbozan kaderin içinde yat?p kalk?yoruz.

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.

Liberty is a central concept in political philosophy and is often considered a fundamental value in democratic societies. However, the meaning of liberty and the extent to which it should be upheld has been a topic of debate throughout history.

The concept that all men are created equal was a key to European Enlightenment philosophy. But the interpretation of all men has hovered over the Declaration of Independence since its creation.

There is always a contradiction between religion and common sense.

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance.

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.