Quotes About Philosophy

Nothing is proved, all is permitted.

Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

And so my thoughts have lead me to believe that childless men and women lead lives more fortunate than those with sons and daughters.

Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never.

The pain is good, as long as you're not laughing.

For it is the part of a wise man to practice restrained good temper.

What man's not guilty? It's taken you a long time to learn That everybody loves himself more than his neighbour.

And I do not fear to say that those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things Are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

Cine ?tie, se poate ca via?a s? fie moarte iar moartea s? fie via??.

Why should you feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice.

for if we, mortals who die, are to have cares even there, I know not where one can turn, for to die is considered the greatest remedy for evils.

For to be in one's right mind causes grief: but madness is an ill; yet it is better to perish, nothing knowing of one's ills.

But you can't believe things because they're a lovely idea. But I do. That's how I believe.

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in Old Maid; the player who is finally with it has lost.

Oh yes, I believe that. It's a lovely idea. But you can't believe things because they're a lovely idea. But I do. That's how I believe.

Say stupid shit. Barf out the fucking-around-o-maniacal schizo flow. Barter whatever for whoever wants to read it.

Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the impossible, come true.

She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.