Quotes About Philosophy

I'm growing older but not up. My metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck. Let those winds of time blow over my head. I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

They believed that this world was fallen but that restitution would be provided elsewhere, in an afterlife. I believed that this world was fallen and that there was no afterlife.

Whatever appears (form and so on) is empty; whatever is empty appears (as form and so on). Therefore, for as long as the dharmadh?tu, the union of appearance and emptiness, free from the thirty-two misconceptions, is not realized, this is not yet the authentic prajñ?p?ramit?.

O, heart! How long will you search for perfection in schools? How long will you try to perfect philosophy, geometry and all its rules? Every thought which is no remembrance of God is an evil inspiration, Be modest before God! How long these evil thoughts? (Leave them to fools!)

there's nothing more important than making a faith reasonable

But then, What is not vain, by God, in lives of men? All is in vain! We play at blind man's buff Until hard edges break into out path. Man life's is error. Where, then, is relief? In shedding tears or wrestling down my grief?

Shaggy existentialists in frayed sandals, dilettantes by the score, spies by the portfolio.

Osciluji mezi dobrem a zlem. Mezi kycem a nekycem, mezi pornografii a krasnem. Rad ze sebe delam idiota, ale nikdy jsem nemyslel na penize. Ty prisly az nakonec. Nemyslet na penize - jedine tak lze stvorit neco hodnotneho.

ONE CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT WAS THAT ART escaped from religion and into the larger world.

De eeuwigheid is het ogenblik waarvan je zegt, dat zal ik nooit vergeten.

Diepzinnigheid die niet gebakerd ligt in paradoxale oppervlakkigheid is natuurlijk een gruwel.

Het is een mooie kringloop, je moet er alleen niet een zin in willen ontdekken. Dat is misschien de enige les die er te leren valt. Gewoon als een blad naar de aarde kunnen tuimelen zonder dat je vindt dat je moet denken dat je vleugeltjes krijgt en weer omhoogvliegt het heelal in. De perzik van onsterfelijkheid is een aardig verzinsel, maar die vrucht heeft beslist geen pit. Het is maar een ezelsbruggetje naar de dood.

I mean, not when he was actually dead but from before, you know, when he wasn't dead?" "I get it.

Why are you

a latent belief in the spontaneity of nature.

Ethical politics requires more than rational demystification.

Robinson Jeffers longed throughout his life ]for a poetry of 'pure undoubtable being'], but could not bear to relinquish his moral connection with the humanity he continually condemned for its self-centeredness.

Kintsukuroi is the name for this ancient Japanese art, which teaches that broken objects are not something to hide away but should be displayed with pride, for they are stronger and more beautiful for surviving the breakage. I think I, too, am stronger and more beautiful for surviving

Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration; stillness was lasting.

See, the human mind is kind of like... a pi

a Nepali outlook, pace and philosophy had prevented us being swamped by our problems. In Nepal it was easier to take life day by day.

As he rode along William thought about all that he had learned from Moses Amyraut. He saw how pointless it was accumulating so many possessions. A single spark could take them all away. No, he told himself, there were more important things in life than social position and an abundance of possessions for him to strive for.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water. — Janet Frame, Faces in the Water . (The Women's Press Ltd December 31, 1985)

Aristotle was convinced that a trained memory helped the development of logical thought processes.