Quotes About Philosophy

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.

As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.

I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.

Allt det där är bara tidsfördriv i väntan på döden.

Let me ask you something. Do you think there's such a thing as a perfect day?

The early Hindus believed in living life to the fullest. Instead of aspiring to immortality, they aspired to living a healthy, full life.…

Art is spirituality in drag.

Über das sprechen, was Zeit eigentlich ist, kann er wahrscheinlich am besten mit denen, die aus ihr hinausgefallen sind. Oder in sie hineingesperrt, wenn man so will.

This is our life; there's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.

Ella no ve el punto en preguntarse. Esta es nuestra vida, no hay caso en preguntarse qué pasaría si… Nadie te puede dar las respuestas. Trato, de verdad, pero es difícil para mí aceptar esa forma de pensar. Siempre me estoy preguntando acerca de los ¿Y si…? sobre el camino no tomado.

The thing is this: Even if the husband leaves her in this awful craven way, she will still have to count it as a miracle, all of those happy years she spent with him. "It was a fucking miracle that I found him," she tells the philosopher.

Whenever the wife wants to do drugs, she thinks about Sartre. One bad trip and then a giant lobster followed him around for the rest of his days.

Once sadness was considered one of the deadly sins, but this was later changed to sloth. (Two strikes then.)

The Buddhists say that wisdom may be attained by reaching the three marks. The first is an understanding of the absence of self. The second is an understanding of the impermanence of all things. The third is an understanding of the unsatisfactory nature of ordinary experience.

What Keats said: No such thing as the world becoming an easy place to save your soul in.

How is that even possible?" the philosopher says. "He's one of the kindest people I've ever met." She knows. She knows. So it begs the question, doesn't it? Did she unkind and ungood and untrue him?

Once my mother had asked me, "Is it better to burn to death or freeze to death?" and the right answer was freeze because at the very end there was a trick that made you think you were warm.

Scientists say that the theory of everything is a technical expression, not a metaphysical one.

Why couldn't the Buddhist vacuum in corners? A. Because she had no attachments.

I am charmed by her. She seems practically like a transcendentalist.

What Wittgenstein said: What you say, you say in a body; you can say nothing outside of this body.

dukkha, which is usually translated as "suffering," can have other meanings. In Tibetan Buddhism, the word is sometimes slanted differently, she says. Instead of saying that life is suffering, they might say that life is tolerable. As in just barely.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.