Quotes About Philosophy

It's a waste of time to think that if you coloured a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

Unfortunately, there is much mediocre philosophy in circulation, and so one sometimes hears it said that There is no such thing as a family, only the individuals who make up the family. This is analogous to the claim that There is no such thing as a table, only the atoms that make up the table—which we also hear on occasion. But in reality, there are not only atoms and molecules. There are also tables.

Não pense em se entender comigo. Não sei porque o ser humano se esforça tanto em se entender um com o outro. Mas lembre-se. Duas pessoas Jamais se entenderão por completo. Pois o ser humano... é um bicho triste assim.

Can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?

This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

As we Chinese say, you don't have to pay tax on bullshit. That being so, why not bullshit to the max?

A parte de la vida misma, no veo otropa motivo para seguir viviendo.

En realidad no vivimos en la Tierra, sino en el interior del tiempo.

To live is to conspire against death knowing that death is our best ally

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.

The principle of least surprise is not for you only. The principle of least surprise means principle of least my surprise.

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?

For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.

The perfectly ordinary girl and the great philosopher are alike: for both, the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world.

Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.

Any confrontation between weak, flabby flesh and death seemed to me absurdly inappropriate

The men who indulged in nocturnal thought, it seemed to me, had without exception dry, lusterless skins and sagging stomachs. They sought to wrap up a whole epoch in a capacious night of ideas, and rejected in all its forms the sun that I had seen. They rejected both life and death as I had seen them, for in both of these the sun had had a hand.

To say human life had no meaning was the easy part. But Hanio was struck all over again by the huge amount of energy required to live a life filled with so much meaninglessness.

Da li je bolest, u stvari, samo ubrzavanje života?

U mladosti duhovni saputnici su nam prijatelji i knjige. Ali najve?a razlika izme?u prijatelja i knjiga je ta da se prijatelji menjaju, a knjige ne. Knjiga, ?ak i ako skuplja prašinu na polici ili u nekom uglu sobe, uporno ?uva svoj karakter i svoju filozofiju. Prihvataju?i je ili odbacuju?i je, ?itaju?i je ili ne, mi samo možemo da promenimo naš stav prema njoj, i to je sve.

The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism and mysticism.

Man does not live simply in order to die.