Quotes About Philosophy

Meet it is that thou shouldst learn all things, as well the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, as the opinions of mortals in which is no true belief at all.

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A infelicidade não é só a infelicidade: é, ainda pior, o fracasso da felicidade.

Caminar no consuela. Caminar hace pensar. Cada paso argumenta.

Aos olhos dos antigos a cólera que há na melancolia é o negro que há na noite.

I ink, therefore I ham.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.

When you examined the facts judicially, and asked which would provide the greatest good for the greatest number, there could be only one answer.

Socrates started an argument with a cow-herd's dog and discovered it had friends;

The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.

Reincarnation?" He shrugged. "I've never seen any evidence that it's real. But I've never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here—and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back.

I waste my life. I want to. It's the thing to do with a life. We were wrong about work--it isn't the best thing, no matter how much you love it. Wasting time is better.

To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die

there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don't expect anything, you don't get disappointed.

Above all, he was posing the question that has vexed philosophers for centuries: Knowing that we are going to die, how are we to live?

I may long for certainty, but I have to live with doing the best I can.

Science itself does not adjudicate on moral values. When all available facts are in, we may still face the questions "What should we do?

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.

Mephistopheles replied, "I am the spirit who always denies!

A value is a rule, principle, or belief that gives meaning to your life.

Taoism shares quite a few similarities with Buddhism and Stoicism—Buddhism is about releasing all attachments, where Stoicism is about acknowledging and growing from discomfort. Together, these philosophies create an incredibly resilient mind.

How enjoyable, how very enjoyable and luxurious it is, suddenly to emerge from the stern labyrinth of fact onto these dawn-lit uplands of surmise!