Quotes About Philosophy

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.

Self-love makes more libertines than love.

I shall always maintain that whoso says in his heart, "There is no God," while he takes the name of God upon his lips, is either a liar or a madman.

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

One can enjoy existence, not life.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

To free "God" from his quotation marks would require nothing less than to free him from metaphysics, hence from the Being of beings.

So, when people say that after the end of the representation of God there is no God, they remain within metaphysics, which presupposes that there could be something that gives itself as representation. They miss the point.

When a philosophical thought expresses a concept of what it then names "God," this concept functions exactly as an idol. It gives itself to be seen, but thus all the better conceals itself as the mirror where thought, invisibly, has its forward point fixed, so that the invisable finds itself, with an aim suspended by the fixed concept, disqualified and abandoned

Evil is in the existent as its innermost possibility of refusing existence

La pensée est le réveil du sens.

chapitre xvii Que disent les philosophes Dans toutes les civilisations, philosophes et penseurs se sont donné pour objectif de reléguer ou de contenir l'agressivité et d'en prémunir autant que possible les sociétés humaines. Tout au moins jusqu'à l'époque contemporaine.

Adossée à cette philosophie aujourd'hui dominante, la violence est partout. Depuis le célèbre

My sight is bad, my hearing is bad, I feel bad, but I don't suffer, I don't complain.

My mother had a philosophy that guided her through many a rough time. 'Only worry when you can do something about it--whatever it is. Then it's not worry, it's thinking things through, trying to decide what's best. When there's nothing you can do, it's just plain worry, and it's pointless and self-destructive.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop-room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.