Quotes About Philosophy

What's the point of being sad? he says. We're here now.

It's a metaphor for life. If sports don't matter, then life doesn't matter.

Vatican Palace…because in Venturi's words, 'Less is

It doesn't mean a thing. Not a thing. Sometimes, in life, there is no meaning at all.

I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.

I thought humans were or weren't, I didn't know someone could be a bit human. Then what are his other bits?

We Irish have a gift for resignation. Or, put another way, fatalism.

But if there's no heaven what remains?

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.

Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely in nature, but in man.

ANARCHISM:—The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.

What I believe" is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

Thus Blackstone is right when he says, Human laws are invalid, because they are contrary to the laws of nature.

Anarchism urges man to think, to investigate, to analyze every proposition; but that the brain capacity of the average reader be not taxed too much, I also shall begin with a definition, and then elaborate on the latter. ANARCHISM:—The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.

I believed in God; but when I saw so great an inequality between men, I acknowledged that it was not God who created man, but man who created God.

Humans have a saying that Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which basically means that if you think it's beautiful, then it is beautiful. The elfin version of this saying was composed by the great poet B.O Selecta, who said Even the plainest of the plain shall deign to reign, which critics have always thought was a bit rhymey. The dwarf version of this maxim is If it don't stink, marry it, which is slightly less romantic, but the general gist is the same.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: No es lo que te ocurre, sino cómo reaccionas lo que importa (Epíteto)

Un signo cierto de un espíritu incapaz es el de ocuparse mucho tiempo en el cuidado del cuerpo, así mismo como en el ejercicio, la bebida, el comer y en otras necesidades corporales. Estas cosas no deben ser lo principal, sino lo accesorio de nuestra vida.

Cómo se lo que va a pasar? Mi tarea es utilizar lo que ocurra con diligencia y habilidad.

Manual para una vida feliz

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?