Quotes About Philosophy

Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Religion is the opium of the poor

I am an old man who will live until I die, Anselmo said.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.

Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences.

I don't know, I said. There isn't always an explanation for everything. Oh, isn't there? I was brought up to think there was. That's awfully nice.

I know now that there is no one thing is true–it is all true.

Age is my alarm clock," the old man said. "Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money. Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth. The world was a good place to buy in. It seemed like a fine philosophy. In five years, I though, it will seem just as silly as all the other fine philosophies I've had.

Who do you suppose has it easier? Ones with religion or just taking it straight? It comforts them very much but we know there is no thing to fear. It is only missing it that's bad. Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you.

Is dying hard, Daddy? No, I think it's pretty easy, Nick. It all depends.

Cdo gjë mund të kalohet në këtë botë të mallkuar. Ndrydhi të gjitha ndjenjat, vdis nga brenda dhe cdo gjë do të kaloj lehtë. Vdis për së gjalli, ashtu sic bëjnë më të shumtët e njerëzve, në të shumtën e kohës. Besoj se kjo është rruga më e mire.

The fact the book was a tragic one did not make me unhappy since I believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could have only one end.

But it is death nevertheless, one of the subjects that a man may write of.

I want nothing. I just want the emptiness to mean something.

Don't ever kid yourself with too much dialectics.

But you mustn't believe in killing, he told himself. You must do it as a necessity but you must not believe in it. If you believe in it the whole thing is wrong.

Who do you suppose has it easier? Ones with religion or just taking it straight? It comforts them very much but we know there is no thing to fear. It is only missing it that's bad. Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you. That is where you have all the luck, see? You don't have any of that.

he said it now in a complete embracing of all that would not be

Hay que tomar la muerte como si fuera aspirina

I suppose it is just the loss of the immortality, he thought. Well, in a way that is quite a lot to lose.

Por qué madrugaremos tanto los viejos? ¿Será para alargar el día?