Quotes About Philosophy

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

the whole block of spacetime from the start of the universe to the end of the universe exists as one unchanging block. This is called the block universe model.

Why are there only three dimensions? It

Woodrow Wilson later wrote: "The Constitution of the United States has been made under the dominion of the Newtonian theory.

As the great physicist John Wheeler said: "To my mind there must be, at the bottom of it all, not an equation, but an utterly simple idea. And to me that idea, when we finally discover it, will be so compelling, so inevitable, that we will say to one another: 'Oh, how beautiful. How could it have been otherwise?

He also thinks death is important. How can it be? It's the most commonplace thing on Earth, the

Well, we're afeared. And what of it? Do we sit down and weep and tremble? Life must go on. And what will be, will be. What is destined can't be avoided, in any case.

Nature doesn't know the concept of philosophy, Geralt of Rivia. The pathetic – ridiculous – attempts which people undertake to try to understand nature are typically termed philosophy. The results of such attempts are also considered philosophy.

It's as though a cabbage tried to investigate the causes and effects of its existence

There are things in heaven and earth that even philosophers have never dreamed about.

Ty, kapcanie, gdyby? w zupie po?kn?? karalucha, to w kiszkach wi?cej by? mia? rozumu ani?eli w g?owie.

The changeability of the world is, as it happens, the only thesis in this treatise you can agree with.

La vita non ha niente a che vedere con la poesia! E sai perché? Perché è al di sopra di qualsiasi critica!

A lógica é a mãe de todo o conhecimento.

Man föds en gång och dör en gång«, sade häxkarlen lugnt. »En perfekt filosofi för en lus, eller hur?«

Because I don't believe in a lesser evil.

The pathetic – ridiculous – attempts which people undertake to try to understand nature are typically termed philosophy. The results of such attempts are also considered philosophy

Qué es la verdad? ¿La negación de la mentira? ¿O la afirmación de un hecho? Y si el hecho es una mentira, ¿qué es entonces la verdad? ¿Quién está lleno de sentimientos que le arrastran y quién es la cobertura vacía de un frío cráneo? ¿Quién? ¿Qué es la verdad, Geralt? ¿En qué consiste la verdad?

I don't know,' said Geralt with effort. 'I don't know, Yurga. Sometimes it seems to me that I know. And sometimes I have doubts. Would you like your son to have doubts like that?' 'Why not?' the merchant said gravely. 'He might as well. For it's a human and a good thing.' 'What?' 'Doubts. Only evil, sir, never has any.

Your talk's so clever it makes my head spin,' Milva snorted. 'And all your wisdom comes down to what's under a woman's skirt. Woeful philosophers.

O Bom ou o Mal, a Luz ou as Trevas, a Ordem ou o Caos? São apenas símbolos, na realidade não existe esse tipo de polaridade! Todos carregam a Luz e as Trevas um pouco de um e um pouco do outro. Essa conversa não tem sentido. Não tem sentido. Não vou conseguir me convencer do misticismo.

With events that have passed there is no problem, provided we don't attempt to be wiser that they are, provided we can't use them to further own own ends. If we let them be, the turn into a marvelous solution, a magical acid that dissolves time and space, eats calendars and atlases, and turns the coordinates of action into sweet nothingness. What is the meaning of the riddle? What is the use to anyone of chronology, sister of death?

The idea of a voyage was something crucial for Guy', Alice told me. He'd seen it the way Gypsies do: not so much experiential as ontological. It's not that Gypsies necessarily voyage from place to place as they are voyagers; the voyage is immanent in who they are, in what they do, irrespective of whether they travel or not. Guy had similarly understood life as an ontological voyage. Time moves on, ineluctably, and people are consumed by fire.

Hell is other people, said Jean-Paul Sartre. Don't take this the wrong way, but I think he means you.