Quotes About Philosophy

Christianity has remained a religion in which the pure Perennial Philosophy has been overlaid, now more, now less, by an idolatrous preoccupation with events and things in time—events and things regarded not merely as useful means, but as ends, intrinsically sacred and indeed divine.

sententiously.

You know the formula: m over nought equals infinity, m being any positive number? Well, why not reduce the equation to a simpler form by multiplying both sides by nought? In which case, you have m equals infinity times nought. That is to say that a positive number is the product of zero and infinity. Doesn't that demonstrate the creation of the universe by an infinite power out of nothing?

Aldous Huxley

Para dentro a Fenomenologia do Espírito. Para fora o pão de milho.

Those who detect no meaning in the world generally do so because, for one reason or another, it suits their books that the world should be meaningless.

It begins easily for the sake of poor imbeciles like me; but it goes on, it goes on, more and more fully and subtly and abstrusely and embracingly.

The Diamond Sutra

Âdem'in yarat?ld??? günün sabah?nda gördüklerini görüyordum: Ç?plak varoluÅŸ mucizesini, anbean yenilenen mucizeyi. Nas?l, iyi mi? diye sordu biri. Ne iyi ne de deÄŸil, dedim. Sadece öyle.

Plato seems to have made the enormous, the grotesque mistake of separating Being from becoming and identifying it with the mathematical abstraction of the Idea. He could never, poor fellow, have seen a bunch of flowers shining with their own inner light and all but quivering under the pressure of the significance with which they were charged; could never have perceived that what rose and iris and carnation so intensely signified was nothing more, and nothing less, than what they were.

El liberalismo, desde luego, murió de ántrax

Make for virtue and happiness, generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Aldous Huxley

All philosophies and all religions—what are they but spiritual Tubes bored through the universe! Through these narrow tunnels, where all is recognisably human, one travels comfortable and secure, contriving to forget that all round and below and above them stretches the blind mass of earth, endless and unexplored.

Lo que importaba era más la felicidad que la verdad y la belleza.

Daimi bir yokolu?, ayn? zamanda saf bir varolu?tur.

I am, and wish I wasn't.

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else.

There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.

There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Love is the law, love under will.

Time and Space are Adverbs.

Shallow thinkers always seem to be obsessed by the stupidity that if anything is a shadow, dream, illusion, it ceases to exist.

Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license.

If Osiris, Christ, and Mahomet were mad, then indeed is madness the key to the door of the Temple.