Quotes About Philosophy

it could not be proven whether God existed, one might as well believe that he did, because there was everything to gain by believing and nothing to lose.

Leo Matienne had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.

Si es atal es atal. What will be will be.

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

Civilization as well as education takes a downward spiral when it ceases to ask What is truth? and concerns itself primarily with what is measurable.

I am old and all I have left is time. I don't mean time to live; I mean free time. Time to fill. Time to kill until time kills me. I walk and walk and think and think.

I am old and all I have left is time. I don't mean time to live; I mean free time. Time to fill. Time to kill until time kills me. I walk and walk and think and think.

Dying," she said in her last week, "is normal. It's as normal as being born.

Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.

IF THERE IS A GOD, GOD IS DISJUNCTION AND MADNESS.

For us there is little to say. After all, we know that death belongs to life, that it is unavoidable and comes when it wants.

The student asks: If my redstone necklace had every view of every veil that ever brightened, would I be wise? The master answers: If I had a thousand pieces of a priceless vase, would I be rich?

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

He, like my father, had a deep love for natural science, and he would discuss at length how physics, philosophy, and mathematics were, each in their own ways, jealous mistresses who required absolute passion and attention.

One joy, the Chinese believe, scatters a hundred griefs...

What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took?

What is the point in worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took?

What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?

Sunt un laÈ™, nu pot îndura suferinÈ›a de a fi fericit.

If asked whether she believed in such things herself, she'd say, "I don't not believe.

But I didn't put it back on after the Porters. It isn't a crisis of faith. I'm not sure I ever had faith, not the way Mom does. Mine is more like Dad's - I believe there is a God, and I believe in honoring Him, but I'm not sure how much of a role He plays in our lives, and I don't blame Him for that, because it's up to us, isn't it? It's up to us to say we'll be a good person because that's what we believe is right, not because it'll earn us a better place in the next life.