Quotes About Philosophy

Why does motion sadden him?

They saw her moving quietly back there like a metaphysician in a novel

Suppression of impertinence is not the lover's aim. Nor can I believe this philosopher really runs after understanding. Rather, he has become a philosopher (that is, one whose profession is to delight in understanding) in order to furnish himself with pretexts for running after tops.

What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

what she calls "Russian fatalism": "It comes from our history, from hundreds of years

that is a Gouda.

And in fact, Flechsig had repeatedly insisted that modern brain science had shown that the 'soul' was nothing more than a system of 'nerves.

First of all, people are always pretending to be what they are," said his father. "That's basically a philosophical question. Part of being something is pretending to be it.

Can one be both barbarian of the soul and sophisticated of the mind?

Rats live on no evil star

It is not enough to read Hesse and drink clam chowder, we must have the answers.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

whereas "I" persist with the fire. born movement the appearance is self-less

So we have school after school, philosophy after philosophy, each one showing an aspect of truth, and ignoring, or even denying, the other aspects which are equally true. Nor is this all; as the age in which we are passes on from century to century, from millennium to millennium, knowledge becomes dimmer, spiritual insight becomes rarer, those who repeat far out-number those who know;

As Nietzsche points out, regret can do nothing to change what has already happened. We just wallow in remorse about something over which we no longer have any control. But if regret happened before a decision instead of after, the experience of regret might get us to change a choice likely to result in a bad outcome.

This is why poker players remind themselves that poker is one long game. We would all do well to remember that life is one long game as well.

Good quotations, like good thoughts, are true wealth.

Elle servait des pommes de terre et du lait du matin au soir pour que je sois assise dans un amphi à écouter parler de Platon

La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances.

Il y avait d'un côté la souffrance, de l'autre la pensée incapable de s'exercer sur autre chose que le constat et l'analyse de cette souffrance.

L'interminable lenteur d'un temps qui s'épaississait sans avancer, comme celui des rêves.

Est-ce une vie ? Oui, sans doute, cela vaut mieux que le vide.