Quotes About Philosophy

I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist.

The moral sense was once explained purely by religion. Now an evolutionary account is needed.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Happiness is no laughing matter.

Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.

?i ce te faci dac? totu?i exista Dumnezeu: spune-mi, ce te faci dac? totu?i este adev?rat ca El exista? (Levi Yitzhak)

One of the peculiarities of black magic, as mentioned earlier, is the inversion of names. Inversions in general so permeated Marx s whole manner of thinking that he used them throughout. He answered Proud- 26/ MARX&>SATAN hon's book The Philosophy of Misery with another book entitled The Misery of Philosophy He also wrote, "We have to use instead of the weapon of criticism, the criticism of weapons." 15

my first wife passed away in the spring of—" and for a moment he is touched with terror. The spring of what? Past? Future? What is any spring but a mindless rearrangement of cells in the crust of the spinning earth as it floats in endless circuit of its sun? What is the sun itself but one of a billion insensible stars forever going nowhere into nothingness? Infinity!

That was when the childhood memory began to prey on his mind, for it suddenly struck him—and the force of it sent his thumbnail biting deep into the secret matchbook—that letting things happen and taking them gracefully had been, in a way, the pattern of his life. There was certainly no denying that the role of good loser had always held an inordinate appeal for him.

Why not let well enough alone? As an intense, nicotine-stained, Jean-Paul Sartre sort of man, wasn't it simple logic to expect that he'd be limited to intense, nicotine-stained, Jean-Paul Sartre sorts of women?

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.

This was the last thing I expected. You destroy my life and then feed me some inspiratonal philosophy.

How do you prove we exist? Maybe we don't.

I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

You destroy my life then feed me inspirational philosophy.

Sometimes," I told her, "I still don't. It goes against every rule of the universe." To my surprise, she touched the small gold cross around her neck. "Some rules are bigger than the universe.

Sometimes, I still don't believe. It goes against every rule of the universe." "Some rules are bigger than the universe.

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless. BERTRAND RUSSELL, ATHEIST

A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men," Mr. Wonka said.

Tragically, Solomon's

He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.

started to see what all those yogis and Buddhas and monks and nuns and sages and gurus across the ages were smiling about. This experience we're all having here, this event we were born into— it's profoundly, deeply, fundamentally off.