Quotes About Philosophy

There are many men like this; they can form a plausible theory and grasp its logical points, but take it away from them and destroy it utterly before their eyes, and they will not so easily lash their tired brains at once to build another theory in place of the one that is ruined.

and I thought of the nations and unpitying Time

All that is is so because it was to be. Rail not, therefore, against what is, for it was all to be.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effects when taken in too large quantities.

Life is sad. Here is someone.

Philosophers are good at parties but not for cleaning up after.

Life is sad, I thought. Here is someone.

These were the sorts of notions that had been raised in all my classes, and we had chased them round and round like dogs maddened by their tails.

Precancer?' she had repeated quietly, for she was a quiet woman. 'Isn't that... like life?

I try. What can I say?" She pauses. "Is all this really happening? I keep thinking that soon it will be over—the life expectancy of a cloud is supposed to be only twelve hours—and then I realize something has occurred that can never ever be over.

I'm bonkers, aren't I? I ask with my mouth full. You're unhappy, says Mr. Fernandez. It can be the same thing. You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.

It is quite evident that the Being of God does not admit of any scientific definition.

Ratiocination is a relatively superficial and unreal path to the deity.

Money has no religion except itself.

I am not a religious man, I am a materialist, but even I can see that priests are a kind of bacteria that enable people to find life digestible.

I am no philosopher, but I know this. Your religions cause wars and prevent marriages. There will be no peace on earth until every synagogue, every mosque, every church, and every temple is razed to the ground or made into a barn, and when that happens, no one will be happier than the Lord God Himself.

He knew too much to be an optimist, and not enough to relieve his pessimism.

Neapg?žami ir mor?les principi, nevis zin?tniski fakti.

It didn't seem fair, but then, a lot of things aren't. We take them as they come.

I never liked the term mystic as applied to someone or a way of thought. It covers something very profound and an awful lot of nonsense passes as profound thought.

Candide by Voltaire

Luckily, one of my teachers got me started on Plutarch and Montaigne.

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confused begging of some philosophical question