Quotes About Philosophy

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.

Jika kau sudah hidup selama aku, kau akan mengerti bahwa kekejaman dan kemuliaan hanyalah nuansa yang berbeda dari warna yang sama.

N-are rost sa te plangi de ceea ce este inevitabil.

The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." Mariam gave a half smile. "It's a good saying.

Under the circumstances the only honest answer an intelligent person can give to the question 'Is there a God?' is to say, 'I do not know.

Personally, I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.

Ask me what you wish; just do not ask me for reasons.

La vita può essere capita solo all'indietro, ma va vissuta in avanti.

The thought of death gives the earnest person the right momentum in life and the right goal toward which he directs his momentum

What is truth but to live for an idea?

Man has made a discovery ... the way to make life easy is to make it meaningless.

Not even a suicide these days does away with himself in desperation but deliberates on this step so long and so sensibly that he is strangled by calculation, making it a moot point whether or not he can really be called a suicide, inasmuch as it was in fact the deliberating that took his life. A premeditated suicide he was not, but rather a suicide by means of premeditation.

Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you—whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension of the spiritual. It's about making something, in language, which can be transmitted to others—not as information, or polemic, but as irreducible art.

Oh, God, I'm going to be a hundred and sixty with a flower on my ass.

Sunt qui discessum animi a corpore putent esse mortem. Sunt erras

For Muir, Emerson and Thoreau were insufficiently wild; they thought from the head down, not feet up.

What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot.

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.

Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation.

no one knows why things happen, you see? Anything could follow from anything. Even real history tells us nothing.

But to say self-interest is all that exists, or that it should be given free rein! My Lord. Believe that and nothing matters but money.

Consciousness is the hard problem.

as if you are already dead.'" "What's that?" "A Japanese saying. Live as if you are already dead.