Quotes About Philosophy

Once in a thousand years, you know, one cat is allowed to speak. My cats are philosophers-neither of them ever cries over spilt milk.

If you believe in a thing it doesn't matter whether it exists or not

everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination.

I said I thought I liked Dean's idea of a succession of lives - I can't make out from him whether he really believes that or not - and Ilse said that might be all very well if you were sure of being born again as a decent person, but how about it if you weren't?

Pero si una tiene ideas grandes, necesita palabras largas para expresarlas, ¿no cree?

Uncle Jim, if I wasn't ME who'd I be?' and, 'Uncle Jim, what would happen if God died?

Ama eÄŸer büyük fikirleriniz varsa onlar? ifade edebilmek için büyük kelimeler kullanman?z gerekir, öyle deÄŸil mi?

I wonder, said Miss Oliver, if humanity will be any happier because of aeroplanes. It seems to me that the sum of human happiness remains much the same from age to age, no matter how it may vary in distribution, and that all the 'many inventions' neither lessen nor increase it.

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

DeÄŸerli ÅŸeyler çoÄŸu zaman biraz s?k?nt?l?d?r.

I know that into everybody's life must come some days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savor. The sunniest day has its clouds; but one must not forget that the sun is there all the time. How easy it is to be a philosopher - on paper! (Item: - If you are out in a cold, pouring rain, does it keep you dry to remember that the sun is there just the same?) Well, thank heaven no two days are ever exactly alike!

Sometimes I wonder whether religion has been a curse or blessing to the world. It has much that is beautiful in it but it seems also to have caused hideous suffering

Geometri s?nav?n? geçsem de geçmesem de güneÅŸ doÄŸup batmaya devam edecek.

Si le dejaran elegir, ¿qué preferiría tener: una hermosura divina, una inteligencia deslumbrante o una bondad angelical?

Pero si uno tiene grandes ideas debe usar grandes palabras para expresarlas, ¿no es verdad?

Wrong theory," Augustus said. "Talk's the way to kill it. Anything gets boring if you talk about it enough, even death.

It seemed to him harder, as he got older, to find a simple way of life.

no medicine man or wise man knew why one man died and another lived. Wise men themselves often died before fools, and cowards before men who were brave.

Things are just put together wrong. There's so much shit in the world a man's gonna get in it sooner or later, whether he's careful or not.

I don't believe in protein," I said. "I think it's a myth, like vitamins. I don't believe in nutrition, in fact. I think it's all a myth.

figured Godwin

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. -H. Poincare

You might find it helpful to read the works of Robert Heinlein and Poul Anderson. The hallmark of a truly great philosopher is that he never writes books on philosophy, and those two are the best. Anderson for how to get along with people who are conspicuously wrong, and Heinlein for when not to.

Dr. King's fitting description of the good life, 'a creative synthesis of opposites.'