Quotes About Philosophy

The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.

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If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body. It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.

And once Father Lucas said to me, 'Be simple, Matthew, life is a simple book, and an open book, read and be simple as the beasts in the field; just being miserable isn't enough -- you've got to know how.' So I got to thinking and I said to myself, 'This is a terrible thing that Father Lucas has put on me -- be simple like the beasts and yet think and harm nobody.

The world and its history were to Nora like a ship in a bottle; she herself was outside and unidentified, endlessly embroiled in a preoccupation without a problem.

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

To think is to be sick...

To our friends,' he answered, 'we die every day, but to ourselves we die only at the end.

Zar nas tek velika nesre?a zaista vra?a sebi? (...) Ima ne?ega istinski velikog, za um i dušu velikog, u svakoj pravoj nesre?i. Samo u njoj postoji jedna životna istina koje se više ne bi lišio. Nikad.

Ja smatram da postoje svi razlozi za život, ali ne uvek, ne i za svakoga. Ponekad nema smisla živeti samo života radi. Ali o tome ne možemo ubedljivo razgovarati. Ni sporiti. Sva su ta velika pitanja života sasvim li?na stvar.

Vi ste vernik? - Jesam. A koji je Vaš Bog? - Budu?nost. Budu?nost? Ne razumem. - Nijedan se Bog ne može razumeti.

Ni?emu život ne sme da bude cena. Apsolutno ni?emu.

Man must believe in something, even if he believes there is nothing.

Reason and faith are both banks of the same river.

But everything is how it should be. How's that for wisdom?

It's the look you give a well-behaved imbecile, an insurance policy against cosmic malevolence.

Remove,' I said to myself, `the impetus to private ownership, and you have made the first giant step toward removing the causes of injustice in the world. There would be no greed if there were no possessions, no jealousy, no envy, perhaps even no hatred.

Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality as a slow-motion explosion, as pouring itself out and passing away, as dissemination. We live in a postmodern epoch in which there is nothing absolute, nothing permanent and nothing substantial.

All life is dying life – including the life of God.

I have no soul: I am not a substance, and there is no real me. There is only what I am able, rather uncertainly, to make of myself as I go along, and what you can make of me: that is, I am only a stream of events, a process in time, and all ideas of me are only interpretations of that process, or bits of it.

Monsieur de Villaine at Romanée-Conti, who believed that the winemaker was no more than an intermediary between the soil and the wine and that he should interfere as little as possible.

We'd insist that all truth was relative, that there was no reality without signifiers, that there was no there there, that nothing, in fact, really existed.

The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.