Quotes About Philosophy

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then. Then is the opposite of now. So saying now obliterates it's meaning, turning it into exactly what it isn't.

Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time . . . In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate.

I've always thought time was a little iffy, myself.

Never be afraid of not knowing, young man. Not knowing is ze practice of poets and sages.

It's funny that the question Aikon asked herself - What is real? - is the same one as mine. It's like she knew somehow, or maybe everyone just has the same question?

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I wondered if there were planets where it's okay to murder people. I decided there must be, reminding myself that in war, after all, killers are heroes.

Who hasn't wanted to die at one time or another?

Of course, I'm not sure there is such a thing as a real self. You could ransack your innards looking for the real you and never find it—slice yourself open and all you'll find is blood and muscle and bone...

Kui maailma valitses mõistus, kas siis ajalugu üldse olekski?

W czÅ'owieku, który uwa?a, ?e wszystko ju? byÅ'o i nic nie mo?e go zdziwi?, umarÅ'o to, co najpiÄ™kniejsze - uroda ?ycia.

Pese a un mapamundi totalmente nuevo, el cometido de observar, examinar, interpretar y describir la filosofía y la existencia, el pensamiento y las condiciones de vida de tres cuartas partes de la humanidad, sigue -igual que en el siglo XIX- en manos de un reducido grupo de especialistas: antropólogos, etnógrafos, viajeros, periodistas…

Los más inflexibles pensamientos son los más prestos a caer.

Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.

The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

The only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh defiantly at it

Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.