Quotes About Philosophy

As for me, I would rather be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man. But we are what we are, and we might remember not to hate any person, for all are vicious; And not to be astonished at any evil, all are deserved; And not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.

Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.

È facile saper vivere. Grande saper morire. It is easy to know how to live. Heroic to know how to die. —Arrigo Paladini

How can the moon be scooped from the water's surface, or flowers be plucked from the void?

There is no life without death. This is the true meaning of yin and yang.

I thought I could use idealism to solve my inner conflicts, but in healing my inner conflicts I destroyed my idealism.

Vi är varken onda eller goda. Vi är helt enkelt intresserade av saker precis som det de är.

Paul Tillich, for example, maintained that, 'It is as atheistic to affirm the existence of God as it is to deny it.'4

All talk and discussion about God (theo-logy means god-talk) is really an exercise in human self-understanding.

In this secular view of the universe, God, along with his heavenly dwelling-place, has lost objective reality. There is no need to postulate a supernatural

Forgetting her promise of no questions, Littlest suddenly asked, Might we be human? But Fastidious did not reply.

He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.

It's just a thing. You deal with it. As in, one damn thing after another? Yes, very like.

In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today's physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.

And that was just how it worked, wasn't it? Happiness handed around and around, never stopping. It wasn't something one could hoard tight like a miser. That would be like trying to hold one's breath for later.

I thought you saw meaning in that sort of thing, said Vorkosigan. In the abstract. Most days it's just stumbling around in the dark with the rest of creation, smashing into things and wondering why it hurts.

He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities. I

God made them, they must have a purpose, but then, God made lions, wolves, and head lice, too.

The real you doesn't eat, or drink, or think, or sleep, or die.

Once we remove the cultural framework around the words religion and magic, no objective differences remain.

These ten paths are called Sephiroth or emanations.

First to bloom in the primary colors of yellow, blue, and red are the Fool, the Hanged Man, and the Aeon. These three personify the powers and qualities of the three mother letters of the Hebrew alphabet and the primitive elements of air, water, and fire.69

I'm confident that you are all saying to yourselves, "Why, I would have thought of that if I had nothing to do all day but to think about stuff!

Cogito ergo sum—I think, therefore I am.