Quotes About Philosophy

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Mark Twain quote about how the only reason for time is so everything doesn't happen at once? I feel like everything that's ever happened in my life is happening

How Leo Tolstoy had inspired Mahatma Gandhi, who had in turn inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. William

The Italian was published in 1797 and is considered the novel where Radcliffe's talents for describing nature and focusing on the sublime reached its peak of sophistication. The importance of the idea of the sublime and the ability of nature to awaken it are crucial to the author's philosophy. The success of Radcliffe's previous works enabled her to receive a payment of eight hundred pounds for her original manuscript, a very sizable sum for a novel at that time.

I am. I think. I will. ... What must I say besides? These are the words. This is the answer.

Never having been dead, it was merely speculation.

His teachings, said his disciple Musaeus, had one simple theme: 'Everything comes into being from the One and is resolved into the One again.

in Socrates' words, he had committed sin by failing to know what was false and what was true.

Because of my underpants?" Ivan asks. "Chiefly because of Pontius Pilate." [from Bulgakov's The Master & Margarita ]

I'm not weeping, I'm not complaining, Happiness is not for me.

I live for two things in life: gossip and metaphysics.

It's not about being happy,' he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I've ever heard.

All day long they hold what look like philosophical discussions, gesticulating slowly with their free hands and clasping tins of beer with the other. They seem to share knowledge of a world where each of them once had a place.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Can you think yourself to death?

I want to be a word. I would be abstract with an inscrutable ending.

Anna," the old woman said, "don't take everything so much to heart. Learn from me. There are things in this world you can change. And there are things in this world you can't change. Those things you have to put up with.

And our understanding of ourselves is deeply indebted to how we have imagined animality in the first place.

The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live....

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

Antigone: We begin in the dark and birth is the death of us. Ismene: Who said that? Antigone: Hegel. Ismene: Sounds more like Beckett. Antigone: He was paraphrasing Hegel. Ismene: I don't think so.

Because my theory is, there's no such thing as life, it's just catastrophe.

At what point does one say of a man that he has become unreal? He hugged his overcoat closer and tried to assemble in his mind Heidegger's argument about the use of moods. We would think ourselves continuous with the world if we did not have moods. It is state-of-mind that discloses to us (Heidegger claims) that we are beings who have been thrown into something else.

Hegel on sacrifice. The animal dies. The man becomes alert.