Quotes About Philosophy

Entendí que prefería tocar bien el ukelele que seguir tocando mal la guitarra, y eso fue como una nueva filosofía personal. Si no podés con la vida, probá con la vidita.

La guitarra siempre me quedó grande, me sonaban sucios los acordes, demasiadas cuerdas para tener en cuenta, demasiadas notas en ese puente. Para un autodidacta, para el que toca de oído como yo, el ukelele es ideal. Entendí que prefería tocar bien el ukelele que seguir tocando mal la guitarra, y eso fue como una nueva filosofía personal. Si no podés con la vida, probá con la vidita.

I would like to know just what kind of nothing I am

To know what we think, to be masters of our own meaning, will make a solid foundation for great and weighty thought.

As I'm fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it's straight ahead.

even the Christian heaven is just real human hell. Add eternal to anything, even eating pussy while listening to Dylan, and you get hell.

Perhaps nothing had happened. Perhaps everything had happened.

I don't think meaning exists without form, and certainly form does not exist without meaning. Meaning and story come first. Story is the most important part of fiction. Without it, what's the point? If all you care about is form, become a critic.

From the dust of creeds outworn.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece

The being called God...bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar.

At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, which is the measure of the universe.

If there are no reasons to suppose that we have existed before that period at which our existence apparently commences, then there are no grounds for supposing that we shall continue to exist after our existence has apparently ceased.

Whence are we, and why are we? of what scene The actors or spectators? Great and mean Meet massed in death, who lends what life must borrow. As long as skies are blue and fields are green, Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow. - Adonais

If ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, a knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

Let the advocate of animal food force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and, as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth, and plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the streaming blood; when fresh from the deed of horror, let him revert to the irresistible instincts of nature that would rise in judgment against it, and say 'Nature formed me for such work as this. Then, and then only, would he be consistent.

Man resembles no carnivorous animal.

He will find, moreover, a system of simple diet to be a system of perfect epicurism.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Una sola palabra puede generar una chispa de inextinguible pensamiento