Quotes About Philosophy

God is the opposite of Rodin.

I had become an inward being, and I walked as in an inward world; everything outside me became a dream; what I had understood till now became unintelligible.

I think that one listens to the murmur of the soul only because of boredom.

There are no gods, only one, and he's too sublime to help.

In the sweet light of love I realized, or believed I realized, that perhaps the inward self is the only self which really exists.

The sages may have been self-serving, like the rest of us, but that doesn't mean they weren't sages.

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.

Be sure you choose what you believe and know why you believe it, because if you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and probably not a very credible one, will choose you.

If you cling frantically to the good, how are you to find out what the good really is?

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

The beauty of ethics is that nobody can be perfectly certain about what it includes or even what it means.

the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.

You are still young enough to think that torment of the spirit is a splendid thing, a sign of a superior nature. But you are no longer a young man; you are a youngish middle aged man, and it is time you found out that these spiritual athletics do not lead to wisdom.

Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.

People who have failed at Christianity aren't likely to make great Buddhists.

Unhappiness of the kind that is recognized and examined and brooded over is a spiritual luxury.

Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really ... Somewhere where it all balances out - don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? - if we could go there, you could see it doesn't. It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.

for he was one of those glittering people whose every gesture looks like a miracle, whose every word sounds like a new philosophy. You've a bit of that yourself, valiantly as you seek to hide it.

Albert Camus once said that 'Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

One's sense of mortality is a great source of wisdom.

Albert Camus dijo una vez que «la verdadera generosidad para con el futuro consiste en entregarlo todo al presente». Pues bien, eso hice yo.

Most men would rather die than think