Quotes About Philosophy

Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

Volt valami, amit kereszténységnek hívtak, mint már említettem (…) Az alulfogyasztás etikája és filozófiája…

The legs, for example, of that chair - how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes - or was it several centuries? - not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them - or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for I was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were they) being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair.

All too many Christians have behaved as though the devil were a first principle, on the same footing as god. They have paid more attention to evil and the problem of its eradication than to good and the methods by which individual goodness may be deepened, and the sum of goodness increased.

Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational

Bu adam bir düÅŸünürdü,eÄŸer düÅŸünürün anlam?n? biliyorsan?z. VahÅŸi haz?rcevap bir biçimde Yeryüzü ve gökyüzündeki ÅŸeylerden daha az?n? hayal eden biri. dedi.

Ca?y k?opot z fikcj? literack? polega na tym - rzek? John Rivers - ?e za du?o w niej sensu. W rzeczywisto?ci nigdy nie ma sensu

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons, that's philosophy.

Man is a double being and can take, now the god's-eye view of things, now the brute's-eye view.

comment savez-vous si la terre n'est pas l'enfer d'une autre planète

Aldous Huxley

Totalitarian regimes justify their existence by means of philosophy and political monism, according to which the state is god on Earth, unification under the heel of a divine state is salvation, and all means to such unification, however intrinsically wicked, are right and may be used without scruple.

As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons -- that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

What fun it would be if one didn't have to think about happiness!

Szcz??liwo?? nigdy nie bywa wznios?a.

Para obtener la felicidad debimos renunciar a la verdad y a la belleza.

Forse la terra è l'inferno di un altro pianeta.

Bedelsiz hiçbir ÅŸey yoktur. MutluluÄŸun bedelinin ödenmesi gerekir. Siz bu bedeli ödüyorsunuz Bay Watson; ödüyorsunuz, çünkü güzellikle fazla ilgileniyorsunuz. Ben de gerçekle fazla ilgilenmiÅŸtim; ben de bedelini ödedim.

God as a sense of warmth about the heart, God as exultation, God as tears in the eyes, God as a rush of power or thought—that was all right. But God as truth, God as 2 + 2 = 4—that wasn't so clearly all right.

The legs, for example of that chair – how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes – or was it several centuries? – not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them – or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for 'I' was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were 'they') being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair.

Is it any happiness, or any comfort, to consider that we are our own?

Cine naiba se crede el ?". Întrebarea nu i se adresa lui Cézanne în particular, ci speciei umane în general. Cine se credeau oamenii ?

philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Query: how to combine the belief that the world is a to a great extent illusory with belief that it is none the less essential to improve the illusion? How to be simultaneously dispassionate and not indifferent, serene like an old man and active like a young one?