Quotes About Philosophy

Christ! What are patterns for?

Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don't think Fortune has anything to do with it?

He was the least spiritual of all the monks here, accepting nothing without proof. This skepticism was simultaneously his greatest asset and his greatest impediment.

The Friedman's ideas played an essential part in my life

Se piensa a veces en la muerte. Tal vez se piensa siempre en la muerte y no se cree que pueda ser tan breve, tan simple, tan rotunda.

A morte para mim é mais um desgosto, não um medo. O medo é uma das coisas que nos faz valorizar a vida. Mas como é que podes ter medo do inevitável? Seria como ter medo do amanhecer.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

All are stoics in the grave.

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

The impotence of God is infinite.

To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjecture.

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?

It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.

Il est dans la nature humaine de penser sagement et d'agir d'une façon absurde.

Je tiens à mon imperfection comme à ma raison d'être.

Epicure a dit: ou Dieu veut empêcher le mal et ne le peut, ou il le peut et ne le veut, ou il ne le peut ni ne le veut, ou il le veut et le peut. S'il le veut et ne le peut, il est impuissant; s'il le peut et ne le veut, il est pervers; s'il ne le peut ni ne le veut, il est impuissant et pervers; s'il le veut et le peut, que ne le fait-il, mon père ?

Das Leben ist zu kurz und Proust zu lang...

C'est dans l'absolue ignorance de notre raison d'être qu'est la racine de notre tristesse et de nos dégoûts.

But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.

think Him limited, even very limited. I no longer believe Him to be the only God. For a long time He did not believe it Himself; in the beginning He was a polytheist; later, His pride and the flattery of His worshippers made Him a monotheist. His ideas have little connection; He is less powerful than He is thought to be. And, to speak candidly, He is not so much a god as a vain and ignorant demiurge.