Quotes About Philosophy

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social order within which individuals could lead happy and ethical lives. He was the first to outline clearly what one is tempted to call the elementary scene of ideology, its zero-level, which consists in asserting the (nameless) authority of some substantial Tradition.

It is what it is and Life Goes on

The Yaksha asked: What is the greatest wonder? Yudhishtira responded: Day after day we see so many people die. Yet, we the living believe that we will live for ever. O Lord, what can be a greater wonder? Krishna

For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool.

Often we read to strengthen our beliefs but not to think.

There is no hell; there is no heaven. In your mind, they are your own creation.

Thoughts have unique beauties you will never able to express it in words.

Thoughts have unique beauties, you will never be able to express it in words.

Truth is so rare. I wonder why it is and where you are?

Despite its veneer of impartial scholarship, Butz's book is replete with the same expressions of traditional anti-Semitism, philo-Germanism and conspiracy theory as the Holocaust denial pamphlets printed by the most scurrilous neo-Nazi groups. -- Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, page 126

We Germans invented all the big movements of the twentieth century. Phenomenology from Heidegger and Hegel, communism from Marx and Engels. So you will have to excuse us for being a little stiff in our limbs – we have been busy.

Who everywhere is free from all ties, who neither rejoices nor sorrows if fortune is good or ill, his is a serene wisdom. Intro to Part 3, Chapter 1. Credit was given to The Bhagavad Gita.

Pân? când nu am în?eles c? ?i eu sunt muritor, nu am ?tiut ce este cu adev?rat etern

Why do you not want schools?" the commissioner asked. "They will teach us to have churches," Joseph answered. "Do you not want churches?" "No, we do not want churches." "Why do you not want churches?" "They will teach us to quarrel about God," Joseph said. "We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that.

To some people who said they believed, religion was a word; to others, it defined who they were.

We can never escape the tension between emotion and reason; neither should we wish to, for life is meaningless without it.

Hidup memang tidak boleh kehilangan makna. Tanpa makna, buat apalagi kita menjalani hidup?

Hidup memang aneh. Banyak penjelasan dalam ketidakjelasannya.

Romantisme itu cuma metafora, dan metafora adalah saput yang melapisi inti kebenaran.

Tanpa makna, buat apa lagi kita menjalankan hidup? Hidup memang tidak boleh kehilangan makna.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.