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Quotes About Philosophy

Yoksul ayd?n, zengin ayd?ndan çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)
~ Knut Hamsun
What if one were up there, drifting about among suns and feeling the tails of comets fan one's forehead! How small the earth was and how puny the people; a Norway of two million provincial souls and a mortgage bank to help feed them! What was life worth at such a rate? You elbowed yourself ahead in the sweat of your face for a few mortal years, only to perish all the same, all the same!
~ Knut Hamsun
Lykkelige mennesker! Det er også noget å være næsten intet.
~ Knut Hamsun
Para qué preocuparse de lo que comería, de lo que bebería, de lo que introduciría en la miserable caja de gusanos, que se llamaba mi cuerpo terrestre?
~ Knut Hamsun
But it doesn't matter. Nothing matters now." And the sound of her voice in the forest was just like a little tremulous song.   And the leaves turn even more yellow, fall is approaching; more stars have appeared in the sky, and from now on the moon looks like a shadow of silver dipped in gold.
~ Knut Hamsun
Hvad vinding er det i grunden endog rent praktisk talt at man ribber livet for al poesi, al drøm, al skjøn mystik, al løgn? Hvad er sandhet, vet De det? Vi bevæger os jo frem bare gjennem symboler, og disse symboler skifter vi efterhvert som vi skrider frem. Lat os forresten ikke glemme glassene.
~ Knut Hamsun
A ti, ?ovje?e, sad razmišljam o tebi. Od svega živoga na tom svijetu, ti si ro?en gotovo ni za šta. Ti budeš dobar ili zao, postojiš bez nekog zamišljenog cilja. Stižeš iz magle i vra?aš se u nju, tako si silno nesavršen.
~ Knut Hamsun
Jeg vilde bare vise, hvilken Højde, man kunde drive det til med Ord, derfor ble disse Stumper bare Ord, pene Ord, Klingeling.
~ Knut Hamsun
Aldeles riktig, jeg følger ikke mønstret. Jeg er tilfreds med ett mål mat om dagen, siden slikker jeg solskin. Hvorfor skal vi bli noget?
~ Knut Hamsun
I don't think there is any point in continuing writing. Since I have neither killed nor been killed, there's nothing further to explain. (Box Man, p. 38)
~ Kobo Abe
Treue gegen sich selbst und Gütigkeit gegen Andere: Darin ist alles befasst.
~ Konfuzius
Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?
~ Konfuzius
In all seriousness, she said, If a phantom has an orgasm, is it a phantasm?
~ Kresley Cole
Krishna is the root of all existence and all the gods. Unlike the gods, he always remains in his transcendental position, unaffected by matter, even though he creates and maintains it.
~ Krishna Dharma
Krishan Kant said .......... Have to take a leaf from the philosophy of Mussolini to run train on time? Have we to follow Hitlerian methods to bring discipline in offices and the economy?... (great leaders of India) looked behind such cosmetic measure and saw the real nature of the state. This is why Sir, we choose a different path under the inspiration of Gandhiji...
~ Kuldip Nayar
Desde James Joyce, sabemos que a maior aventura de nossa vida é a ausência de aventuras.
~ Kundera
Govno je teži teološki problem nego zlo. Bog je dao ?ovjeku slobodu i možemo se, na kraju krajeva, složiti kako nije odgovoran za ljudske zlo?ine. A odgovornost za govna u potpunosti spada na onoga tko je stvorio ?ovjeka.
~ Kundera, Milan
Menns lærdom kommer av bøker, kvinners av naturen
~ Kung-fu-tse
Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.
~ Kwame Anthony Appiah
Det behöver knappast sägas att Marx tanke med en grundläggande indelning i två klasser utelämnade ett stort antal människor. ... Marx föddes i en tysk-judisk medelklassfamilj i Preussen. ... Var passade Marx själv in?
~ Kwame Anthony Appiah
Being deluged with trolley problems is one of the professional hazards of modern moral philosophy.
~ Kwame Anthony Appiah
Get it into your thick head that jokes are just like life. Things that begin badly, end badly. Everything's fine in the middle, it's the end you need to worry about.
~ László Krasznahorkai
I'm not interested to believe in something, but to understand the people who believe.
~ László Krasznahorkai
It's not that I don't understand why a person has to die, but rather, I don't understand why a person has to live, Baron Béla Wenckheim pondered
~ László Krasznahorkai