Quotes About Philosophy

Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock.

Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.' Alexander Pope.

Hästi sõnastatud teadmised on hea vaimutoit,» ütles Philip Sidney. Aga teisest küljest: «Sõnad on nagu puude lehed — sealt, kus neid on ohtralt, võib harva leida palju mõistuse vilja.» Alexander Pope.

How do you reconcile the role of science, which is reason, with the role of faith, which is religion?

suffering," he said, "is mortality itself, which is the prime condition of life.

That's the same idea that comes to us through the German Romantics, as well as out of India. To Goethe's "Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis" ("Everything transitory is but a reference"),5 Nietzsche adds another point: "Alles Unvergängliche—das ist nur ein Gleichnis" ("All things eternal are only references as well").

You must understand that each religion is a kind of software that has its own set of signals and will work.

All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.

I must live until I die, mustn't I?

For history is made with tools, not with ideas; and everything is changed by economic conditions - art, philosophy, love, virtue - truth itself!

Principles? Principles won't do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags—rags that would fly off at the first good shake. No; you want a deliberate belief.

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

La vida és ben rara, un arranjament misteriós de lògica despietada per una finalitat fútil. El màxim que se'n pot esperar és un coneixement de tu mateix, que arriba massa tard, i una collita de retrets inextingibles.

I am not such a fool as I look, quoth Plato to his disciples.

Hullunkurinen juttu, tämä elämä – tämä salaperäinen järjestelmä, jonka armoton logiikka toimii turhaa tarkoitusta varten. Enin mitä siltä voi toivoa saavansa on vähäinen itsetuntemus – joka tulee liian myöhään, satonaan lähtemätön katumus.

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

Gli idealismi impoveriscono la vita. Il renderla bella significa toglierle il suo carattere complesso; significa rovinarla.

He was too lazy even for a mere demagogue, for a workman orator, for a leader of labour. It was too much trouble. He required a more perfect form of ease; or it might have been that he was the victim of a philosophical unbelief in the effectivness of every human effort.

And ye have seen desiring without fruit, Those whose desire would have been quieted, Which evermore is given them for a grief. I speak of Aristotle and of Plato

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The search for a new type of rationality became just another form of antirationalism.

Who is Spain? Why is Hitler? Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?

What the hell are you getting so upset about? he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrite amusement. I thought you didn't believe in God. I don't, she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be.

I used to think it was immoral to be unhappy.