Quotes About Philosophy

The cause of my profound sense of incompatibility with others is, I believe, that most people think with their feelings, whereas I feel with my thoughts. For the ordinary man, to feel is to live, and to think is to know how to live. For me, to think is to live, and to feel is merely food for thought.

I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it's not me.

I have no philosophy, I have senses . . . If I speak of Nature it's not because I know what it is But because I love it, and for that very reason, Because those who love never know what they love Or why they love, or what love is. To love is eternal innocence, And the only innocence is not to think . .

FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough...

We never know self-realization. We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.

Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.

There's enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

Escrever é esquecer. A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida

Since we can't extract beauty from life, let's at least try to extract beauty from not being able to extract beauty from life.

I believe in the World as in a daisy. Because I see it. But I don't think about it Because thinking is not understanding…

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

Tomorrow I too - this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself - yes, tomorrow I too will be someone who no longer walks the streets, someone others will evoke with a vague: 'I wonder what's become of him?' And everything I do, everything I feel, everything I experience, will be just one less passer-by on the daily streets of some city or other.

Triste de quem é feliz ! Vive porque a vida dura. Nada na alma lhe diz Mais que a lição da raiz Ter por vida a sepultura.

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

To possess something is to lose it. To feel something without possessing it is to keep it, because in that way one extracts its essence.

Multipliquei-me para me sentir.

To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.

Let's develop theories patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them - acting and justifying our actions with new theories that condemn them. Let's cut a path in life then go immediately against that path. Let's adopt all the poses and gestures of something we aren't and don't even wish to be, and don't even wish to taken for being.

Beauty is the name of something that doesn't exist

If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings

Peki, kim kurtaracak beni var olmaktan?

Amar é a eterna inocência, E a única inocência não pensar...

O meu misticismo é não querer saber. É viver e não pensar nisso.

A vida é a hesitação entre uma exclamação e uma interrogação. Na dúvida, há um ponto final.