Quotes About Philosophy

The I is a concept that resists its own nullity as if life depended upon it.

To be awake is to be available to torment, and this is the full complete meaning of life.

Être éveillé, c'est souffrir; voila le sens profond de la vie.

Hutte répétait qu'au fond, nous sommes tous des "des hommes des plages" et que "le sable - je cite ses propre termes - ne garde que quelques secondes l'empreinte de nos pas".

We're each other's questions, aren't we? The question that never gets an answer.

You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say. "Ah, philosophy," he smiles. "I didn't know you had it in you.

No such thing as nothing. So it's gotta be a something, don't it?

He's uncertain what's going to happen next. But he is certain that that's actually the point. If this is all a story, then that's what the story means. If it isn't a story, then the exact same is true.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Do you not find it happens very often, that you are as gay as Garrick at dinner and then by supper-time you wonder why God made the world?

This civic-minded commitment might have been a function of the socialist philosophy that the brothers shared: they would generate wealth, but they wouldn't hoard

I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks it's a cat. And a lettuce that thinks its a lettuce." "It's a clever lettuce, then." "Hardly," she said with a delicate snort. "Why would anything clever think it's a lettuce?" "Even if it is a lettuce?" I asked. "Especially then," she said. "Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.

How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?" I gave it a moment's hard thought. "A meat pie, or a fruit pie?

Only a fool worries over what he can't control.

The Lethani is the same everywhere," she said firmly. "It is not like the wind, changing from place to place." "The Lethani is like water," I responded without thinking. "It is itself unchanging, but it shapes itself to fit all places. It is both the river and the rain." She glared at me. "Who are you to say the Lethani is like one thing and not another?" "Who are you to do the same?

Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn't be.

Utilizar palabras para hablar de palabras es como utilizar un lápiz para hacer un dibujo de ese lápiz sobre ese mismo lápiz. Imposible. Desconcertante. Frustrante.

Has deducido una verdad universal: la realidad suele ser injusta.

Se puede dividir el infinito un número infinito de veces, y las partes resultantes seguirán siendo infinitamente grandes. Pero si divides un número no infinito un número infinito de veces, las partes resultantes son no infinitamente pequeñas. Como son no infinitamente pequeñas, pero hay un número infinito de ellas, si las sumas, obtienes una suma infinita. De lo que se desprende que, de hecho, cualquier número es infinito.

La pereza es una de mis principales virtudes" - Kvothe

I looked down at the board. "The point isn't to win?" I asked. "The point," Bredon said grandly, "is to play a beautiful game.

La gentileza es el lujo de los sabios.

Hay dos cosas que debéis recordar. La primera es que nuestros nombres nos dan forma, y que nosotros damos forma a nuestros nombres. —Dejó de pasearse y nos miró—. La segunda es que hasta el nombre más sencillo es tan complejo que vuestra mente jamás podría tantear siquiera sus límites, y mucho menos entenderlo lo bastante bien para pronunciarlo.

He gestured at the brief and brutal lay of stones between us. "Look at that. Why would I ever want to win a game such as this?" I looked down at the board. "The point isn't to win?" I asked. "The point," Bredon said grandly, "is to play a beautiful game." He lifted his hands and shrugged, his face breaking into a beatific smile. "Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?