Quotes About Philosophy

Los dioses no estaban ya, y Cristo no estaba todavía, y de Cicerón a Marco Aurelio hubo un momento único en que el hombre estuvo solo.

Man is nothing but a coagulation of mud and shit ... equipped with instincts lower than those of the pig or crab-louse

Cuando los dioses ya no existían y Cristo no había aparecido aún, hubo un momento único, desde Cicerón hasta Marco Aurelio, en que sólo estuvo el hombre.

Comme l'on serait savant si l'on connaissait bien seulement cinq à six livres. ( How wise one might be if one knew thoroughly only some half of a dozen books

L'âme humaine est plus complexe et vaste que tout.

I can't believe that our body, composed as it is of mud and shit and equipped with instincts lower than those of the pig or the crab-louse, contains anything pure and immaterial

Son spiritualisme (Mme Dambreuse croyait à la transmigration des âmes dans les étoiles) ne l'empêchait pas de tenir sa caisse admirablement. (L'Éducation sentimentale).

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

I'm fascinated by Buddhism. I adore Buddhism, and I read about it all the time, but I haven't formally become a Buddhist, although I don't really know why I haven't. I guess I feel I don't need to.

Society has a fascination with death.

I have always had a fascination about what's inside a human being.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

My Pa always said, 'Live fast, die laughing,' that's the way to do it.

I don't believe in fate.

There is no armor against fate.

They say, you don't get anything before time and more than fate. I truly believe that and have never felt the need to fight it out, to say 'why this didn't happen earlier.'

It doesn't matter what you believe - and everyone believes something different - but I think there's something to be said for fate.

Most Americans, I don't think, could fathom the society that I grew up in. It is a completely different philosophy from America's. You are basically told what you can be by the educational system.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case of descriptive philosophy, you have literature or logic, which, in my view, is really mathematics.

I'm not a fighter to score points of fight with time limit.