Quotes About Philosophy

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Emerson lectured and wrote treaties and essays, and masses of clotted, cabbagey poetry. Reading him is like trying to hack your way through a swamp of creeping verbiage.

The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.

Owl,' said Rabbit shortly, 'you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is easy thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it.

Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie, A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. Ask me a riddle and I reply: "Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.

But, Eeyore," said Pooh, "was it a Joke, or an Accident? I mean--" "I didn't stop to ask, Pooh. Even at the very bottom of the river I didn't stop to say to myself, '*Is* this a Hearty Joke, or is it the Merest Accident?' I just floated to the surface, and said to myself, 'It's wet.' If you know what I mean.

Ale, man, Ale's the stuff to drink, for fellows whom it hurts to think.

And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here I am in hell.

Marx was concerned to change society or rather, if he adhered rigidly to his system, expected society to change in the way he wanted.

I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?

In being aware of the bodily experience, we must thereby be aware of aspects of the whole spatio-temporal world as mirrored within the bodily life.....my theory involves the entire abandonment of the notion that simple location is the primary way in which things are involved in space-time.

But does time honour things? Sabine would teach me to ask. How? Why? And if it does, ought it to go on doing so? And for how long?)

A?k sözcü?ü yerini, anlam?n? dumura u?ratt?. S?radan bir sözcük gibi yerini her ?eye açt?. Tanr? gibi varolup da var olam?yor art?k. Hem a?k?n varl??? da çok su götürür. Gerçekte a?k yoktur: Var k?lmak istiyoruz. Bu hakk?m?z da. Ba?ka bir ?eyimiz yok çünkü.

Asl?nda anlam do?as? gere?i söyleyece?ini söyleyip hemen kapanmak ister. Belirsizlikten korkar. Yitip gidece?ini san?r. Belirsizlik, anlam yoksunlu?u de?ildir. Tam tersine 'çokanlaml?l?kt?r', s?n?rs?zl?kt?r. ?iir orda boy göstermek ister. Orda kendine gelir." ?lhan Berk, 'Poetika', sayfa 61

Like all magical mysteries, the secrets of the Great Work have a triple meaning: they are religious, philosophical and natural. Philosophical gold in religion is the Absolute and Supreme Reason; in philosophy, it is truth; in visible nature, it is the sun: in the subterranean and mineral world, it is the purest and most perfect gold. Hence the search after the Great Work is called the Search for the Absolute, and this work itself is termed the operation of the sun.

Religion realizes philosophy by adapting it to the weaknesses of the vulgar....

The hieroglyphic sign of the cross, a symbol of the name which contains all names, image of the four cardinal points of the squaring the circle (or circular movement of the square), embodies and represents all the philosophy and all the theology of the Qabalah.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

Rien ne vient de rien & rien ne se perd dans le rien

I go to bed and before falling asleep I talk to Lucas in my head the way I have for many years. What I tell him is just about what I usually do. I tell him that if he's dead he's lucky and I'd very much like to be in his place. I tell him that he got the better deal, that it is I who is pulling the greater weight. I tell him that life is totally useless, that it's nonsense, an aberration, infinite suffering, the invention of a non-God whose evil surpasses understanding.

Mañana, ayer, ¿qué significan esas palabras? Solo existe el presente. En un momento dado, nieva. En otro, llueve. Luego hace sol, viento. Todo eso es ahora. No ha sido, no será. Es. Siempre. Todo a la vez. Ya que las cosas viven en mí y no en el tiempo. Y en mí, todo es presente – Ayer

Mañana, ayer, ¿qué significan esas palabras? Solo existe el presente. En un momento dado, nieva. En otro, llueve. Luego hace sol, viento. Todo eso es ahora. No ha sido, no será. Es. Siempre. Todo a la vez. Ya que las cosas viven en mí y no en el tiempo. Y en mí, todo es presente.