Quotes About Philosophy

Vorbitul a tout propos ?i hors de propos dup? modelul lui Paul Sterian, Ion I. Cantacuzino sau Emil Cioran este foarte hazardat si trebuie neap?rat sus?inut de gra?ia primului, silueta impozant? a secundului sau de naivitatea teribil? a celui de al treilea.

El lógico (al Señor anciano): Aquí tiene un silogismo ejemplar. El gato tiene cuatro patas. Isidoro y Fricot tienen cada uno cuatro patas. Por lo tanto Isidoro y Fricot son gatos. El señor anciano (al Lógico): Mi perro también tiene cuatro patas. El lógico (al Señor anciano): Entonces es un gato.

Eu nu sunt eu. Eu sunt altul. Sunt unul într-altul.

Continuându-ÅŸi lectura, Domnul Smith, plesc?ie.

The fact that I despise religion doesn't mean I don't esteem it highly.

Man in fact is petty: the problem of death is a human problem. A cow doesn't think about death. A cow isn't petty

PUPIL: Are the roots of words square? PROFESSOR: Square or cube. That depends. PUPIL: I've got a toothache.

There is no reason for anything. If I knew, if I could see, could understand, I should return to silence and night. I think that if what impels me to live could be explained to me I should stop living.

dve stvari su za mene neprihvatljive: biti ro?en i onda umreti. samo to nisam tražio, i to nikako ne prihvatam.

Eh oui, je rêve...la vie est un rêve.

1st KEEPER: Who said nobody and nothing could ever belong to us? 2nd KEEPER: What a breach between heart and head! 1st KEEPER: What a contradiction! 2nd KEEPER: He doesn't believe what he thinks or think what he believes.

So it is that once a person has settled on the question as to what is wrong, the choice of cures is limited. You do not prescribe surgery for a minor cut, nor do you put a Band-Aid on cancer. The question of the human condition is, I believe, the most fundamental and consequential question of all.

The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future too.

Voltaire, Rousseau, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Ibsen! Atheists, fools, and madmen! And your poets! This Dowson, and this Baudelaire, and Swinburne and Oscar Wilde, and Whitman and Poe! Whoremongers and degenerates!

I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come.

idea that you cannot control what happens to you, but you can control how you feel about it. Or, as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.

If, after all, there is no truth, how could it be true that there is no truth? If there is no absolute morality, how can you condemn the morality of considering my culture better than another? Relativism made no sense, as Shakespeare clearly saw.

It's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.

Maybe the problem is that you are trying to understand a philosophy instead of trying to get to know a man." I recognized this on the instant as the single smartest thing anyone had ever said to me.

It is the paradox of virtue knit into the fabric of reality: you will not be free unless you are virtuous; you cannot be virtuous unless you are free.

Only Coleridge was philosophically brilliant enough to understand that their declarations about nature—its immortality, its beauty and truth—needed to rest upon the supernatural, "a kind of common sensorium"—as he called Jesus Christ—"the total Idea that modifies all thoughts.

Maybe the problem is that you are trying to understand a philosophy instead of trying to get to know a man.