Quotes About Philosophy

Ben poco del male che si può dire dell'uomo e dell'umanità io non l'ho detto. E tuttavia l'orgoglio che provo per essa é ancora così grande che solo una cosa io odio veramente: il suo nemico, la morte.

Questions outlive the answers.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

I did not deny God's existence, but I doubted his absolute justice.

What is man? Dust turned to hope.

Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.

All my life, until today, I have been content to ask questions. All the while knowing that the real questions, those that concern the creator and his creation, have no answers. I'll go even farther and say that there is a level at which only the questions are eternal, the answers never are. And so, the patient that I am, more charitable, repeats: 'Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as in the answers.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice. Akiba

Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

Hubiera querido agregar: ¿por qué agradecerle? Hacía mucho que no comprendía qué había hecho el buen Dios para merecer al hombre.

Everything had been said. The pros and the cons. I would choose the living or the dead. Day or night.

most of us turn to religion for our ethics because we don't know where else to find them.

Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say.

I am in a waiting room without end, without location, without time or place. If I go outside, I die before I get any answers. I exist only in a theoretical way, like a point on a coordinate plane. I am the simulation.

Life feels pointless.

However healthy you think you are, remember that vegetarians die too.

Life comes with problems, you have to accept that. And you have to try to lead the simple life; to not constantly ask questions about the whys and the wherefores of everything.

Negro ideas. But they were just ideas, free-floating and of no color at all.

Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. That's my philosophy. This is why I always wore makeup and jewelry into the jungle-nothing too extravagant, but maybe just a nice gold bracelet and some earrings, a little lipstick, good perfume. Just enough to show that I still had my self-respect.