Quotes About Philosophy

From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell

If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas?

The aphorism is already a shadow of itself.

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

understood that when treachery is philosophically justified, true peace is impossible.

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

There has always been philosophical speculation on the question, What if there were no God? Keller thinks as he walks through the slush. But no one has really asked, much less answered, the question, What if there were no Satan?

As in life itself." Xue Xin chuckled. "Are we its guest, or its prisoner?

Becketts work is an embarrassment to the Void.

I think that the effort is to reach a realm of meaning that is not quite sayable. You stay away from what can be said and you try to reach what cant quite be said. Yet it is nevertheless meaningful. And there is such a realm and it is very difficult to talk about. Its not quite nonverbal, but that comes fairly close.

Fragments are the only forms I trust.

as Einstein put it 'Time and space are modes by which we think, and not conditions in which we live.

Nathan Seiberg of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton said, "I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.

decentralized control is not simply a philosophy; it is a set of technical skills that can be developed and practiced.

But there are no happy endings, because if things are happy they have not ended.

There's one advantage to smoking, about which we agree. When our breathing starts to vanish, we will not ask, "Why me?

Perhaps all human effort is absurd. --pg112

Philolaus of Corinth (about 730 B.C.?) had supposedly enacted regulations ensuring that the farms at Thebes might remain the same number in perpetuity. The Corinthian Pheidon, "one of the most ancient of the lawgivers," purportedly argued that the population and the number of plots ought always to remain roughly equal. An even more shadowy figure, Phaleas the Chalcedonian, advanced the concept that all citizens of the polis ought to hold equal amounts of property.148

The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.