Quotes About Philosophy

Marx is like Plato, he has dreams that can't come true as long as people are people.

Morally, magic is just indefensible.

Plato didn't have as much experience of humanity as he needed when he wrote a book like the Republic,' Socrates said. 'Perhaps nobody does.

Maybe he [Plato] really couldn't imagine agape between men and women, and he thought agape between men wouldn't be affected by them going off to women at the festivals. Sokrates was married, and Aristotle, but never Plato.

I believe that Plato was correct in saying that our souls long for the Good, and that nobody chooses evil for themselves while recognizing that it is evil, though some may do it in ignorance.

The devil doesn´t exit. That´s what I´d tell them if they asked me. The humanly human exists...the transit.

Sei que estou falando demais, dos lados. Resvalo. Assim é que a velhice faz.

O senhor por ora mal me entende, se é que no fim me entenderá. Mas a vida não é entendível.

Esbandalhados nós estávamos, escatimados naquela esfrega. Esmorecidos é que não. Nenhum se lastimava, filhos do dia, acho mesmo que ninguém se dizia de dar por assim. Jagunço é isso. Jagunço não se escabrêia com perda nem derrota — quase que tudo para ele é o igual. Nunca vi. Pra ele a vida já está assentada: comer, beber, apreciar mulher, brigar, e o fim final.

De que tivesse neste mundo um tal nhô Constâncio Alves, o que era que eu ponderava com isso?

Ah, Senhor, os dias correm vagarosos como caramujos, os anos não perduram mais que uma fagulha, o passado não acaba nunca.

To quote Shirley Polanski, head waitress at the Humdinger Diner: "Beware of a big man whose stomach doesn't move when he laughs." I think a Chinese philosopher said it first, but these things trickle down to the food service community.

I don't expect life to be easy. It hasn't been yet and I'm not holding out for smooth sailing in the future. Not everyone likes this philosophy, but it makes sense to me because when life hits the skids, I don't have to regroup as much as the people who walk around in a cloud like the world owes them a joyful existence.

Sometimes we complicate things too much. There is great wisdom in keeping things simple. When the Dalai Lama was asked to explain his religion and philosophy of life, he answered very simply that his religion is kindness. Can you envision a world in which kindness was everyone's primary motivation? We would be living in heaven on earth.

The only thing that we can know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

When the Jo personality first told him of the diagnosis, he called MPD "clinical bullshit." Then, seeing Jo's stricken look, he softened and showed her how the possibility of many personalities in a single body was philosophically untenable. MPD did not fit into Steve's system of beliefs, and therefore it did not exist.

People say it is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made.

she was a level-headed woman who saw the glass as neither half empty nor half full, but rather a glass with something in it and room to pour in more...

Life is so beautiful that even the idea of death must be born before it can be realized.

Everything comes to an end, reader. It is an old truism to which may be added that not everything that lasts, lasts for long. This latter part is not readily admitted; on the contrary the idea that an air castle lasts longer than the very air of which it is made is hard to get out of a person's head, and this is fortunate, otherwise the custom of making those almost eternal constructions might be lost.

He was never quite at home in what we may call our post-positivist era

But Tik Tok believes everything's circular, including men and women. He says nature seems to go around and around, and that we all have bits of everything.

If there was a God, the world seemed exactly the way it would be if there wasn't one.

I learnt a long time back to accept whatever comes my way. Best savor the good and bear up under the bad. There ain't no changin' none of it.