Quotes About Philosophy

Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.

famous Japanese adage that is both edifying and rippingly depictive," said Drayton. "Carp eyes coming, fish eyes going . . ." "Soon will be the wind in the pines

You may have to go with English," Bailey says. "Einstein said, So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality." Bailey tilts her head. "Still waiting on the English there, Professor," she says. "It basically means, we don't know shit about anything," he says.

Einstein said, So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality." Bailey tilts her head. "Still waiting on the English there, Professor," she says. "It basically means, we don't know shit about anything," he says.

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Bir tek gerçek vard?r, o da gerçek diye bir ÅŸey olmad???d?r! Gerçek, herkesin bakt??? noktaya göre deÄŸiÅŸir.

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

Consumption kept the workers working, which kept the paychecks coming, which kept the people spending, which kept the investors investing, which meant there was more to consume. The system, properly understood, was independent of values and needed no philosophy to prop it up. It was a perfect circle, complete in itself - and empty in the middle.

The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.

was all uniformity;—he was systematical, and, like all systematic reasoners, he would move both heaven and earth, and twist and torture every thing in nature to support his hypothesis.

I like subordination, quoth my uncle Toby...

Y en tanto un hombre cabalgue sobre su CABALLO DE JUGUETE tranquila y apaciblemente por el camino real sin obligarnos ni a usted ni a mí a montar tras él,—dígame, señor, ¿qué nos importa tal cosa a ninguno de los dos?

Ä°ÅŸte senin yanl???n da burada, diye kar??l?k verirdi babam - çünkü Foro Scientiae (bilim alan?)'de CÄ°NAYET diye bir ÅŸey yoktur, yaln?zca ÖLÜM vvard?r kardeÅŸim.

Si la instalación de la ventana de Momo en el pecho del hombre, de acuerdo con la corrección propuesta por aquel archicrítico, hubiera tenido lugar[134],——primero: sin duda alguna habría sucedido el siguiente desatino:—que hasta los más sabios y serios de todos nosotros habríamos tenido que pagar, en una u otra moneda, impuestos de ventana[135] todos y cada uno de los días de nuestra vida.

biz varsak, ölüm yok;-ölüm varsa-biz yokuz.

Ni las artes del médico ni las del filósofo habrían sido jamás capaces de enderezar del todo semejante entuerto.

Mi padre comenzaba apoyándose en la fuerza de los dos axiomas siguientes: Primero: que, para un hombre, una onza de su propia inteligencia valía por una tonelada de la de cualquier otra persona; y Segundo (el cual, por cierto, era el fundamento del primer axioma—aunque viniera después): que la inteligencia de todo hombre debía necesariamente provenir de su propia alma—y jamás de la de ninguna otra persona.

The motto from Epictetus means, It is not things themselves, but opinions concerning things, which disturb men.

I feel that weaving is a precise metaphor for the way in which life is made," she said. "By which I mean individually constructed. Any strand can be woven in at the dictation of the imagination. I think of the philosophy of history as a loom of that sort. It is, isn't it?

Which was better: being alive (if that was the right word) but not remembering anything, or being dead?

What does it all

after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.

We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.

God did not create us, nor did He wish us to be created. We are the work of a lesser deity, a demiurge, who wrongly believed himself to be God.