Quotes About Philosophy

What you can't afford to lose is precisely what the world robs you of. How it knew what you needed the most, just so it could deny you that very thing, was a question for philosophers. Answer it and you'd have the kind of book Tom Ford would've considered worth writing: urgent and new and absolutely necessary. To write it, though, you'd have to be on fire.

Human life, for Nietzsche, is ultimately a part of a kind of vast game…[which] is, so to speak, the only game in town….The nature of the game, he holds, establishes a standard for the evaluation of everything falling within its compass. The availability of this standard places evaluation on footing that is as firm as that on which the comprehension of life and the world stands.

our intellectual quest for truth can never be separated from the cultivation of our moral and aesthetic imagination.

La teoria redime i fenomeni; è una congettura fortunata.

In effect, the objective world has been ruled by the Enlightenment, the subjective world by Romanticism.

Astrology," he stated, "represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

This may sound somewhat obvious but, as the French philosopher Voltaire once famously pointed out, the main problem with common sense is that it is not so common.

a knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die.

How could one find out about life when one was about to die?

Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality. --Richard Wright to William Faulkner

What man is is perhaps too much to be borne by man.

La crueldad gratuita... Hay que reconocer que no pasa nunca de moda, y los nazis la habían elevado a la categoría de filosofía.

All gotter be equal,' he pronounced fiercely, 'all gotter have lots of money. All 'uman beings. That's sense, isn't it? Is it sense or isn't it?

Happiness is just the absence of pain. It's the best I can hope for.

Morality's just comfort food -- it holds no meaning outside of our minds.

Samurai are born to die. Death is not a curse to be avoided -- but the natural end of all life. Death is not eternal . . . dishonor is.

HUGS, another one of the many benefits of not being a nihilistic, psychopathic automaton.

Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, Can I have your apple?

Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies

Does truth have a moral?

You only delay your death. Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies.

I remember something Marcus Aurelius used to tell his son, a quote that later became famous in his Meditations book: Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

THE ONLY REASON FOR A MAN TO LIVE IS TO DIE

When Athena falls in love, it's purely intellectual. It's a meeting of minds. The purest kind of love.