Quotes About Philosophy

I opened my eyes and saw the real world, and I began to laugh, and i haven't stopped since.

My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

Faith is namely this paradox that the single individual is higher than the universal

la vida sólo puede ser entendida mirando hacia atrás; aunque deba ser vivida mirando hacia adelante

I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.

The Highest, after all, is not to comprehend the Highest, but to do it.

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

He cannot become old, for he has never been young; he cannot become young, for he has already become old; in a way he cannot die, for he has never lived; in a way he cannot live, for he is already dead.

Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.

Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking anything away, least of all cheating people out of something by making them think it is nothing.

What philosophers say about actuality [Virkelighed] is often just as disappointing as it is when one reads on a sign in a secondhand shop: Pressing Done Here. If a person were to bring his clothes to be pressed, he would be duped, for the sign is merely for sale.

Therefore, truth is not a matter of knowing this or that but of being in the truth.

Metaphorically speaking, a person's ideas must be the building he lives in - otherwise there is something terribly wrong.

Birkaç aÄŸlama nöbetinin ard?ndan ÅŸimdi ÅŸu dingin ruh haliyle ne kadar güzelleÅŸti. Varl??? hüzünle ac?n?n güzel bir uyumu

a bad conscience is indeed able to make life interesting.

Boredom is the only continuity the ironist has.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

To believe is indeed to lose the understanding in order to gain God.

It isn't at all difficult for philosophy to begin. Far from it: it begins with nothing and can accordingly always begin. What seems so difficult to philosophy and the philosophers is to stop.

It is really true what philosophy tells us, that life must be understood backwards. But with this, one forgets the second proposition, that it must be lived forwards. A proposition which, the more it is subjected to careful thought, the more it ends up concluding precisely that life at any given moment cannot really ever be fully understood; exactly because there is no single moment where time stops completely in order for me to take position [to do this]: going backwards.

The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.

But the eternal is not a thing which can be had regardless of the way in which it is acquired; no, the eternal is not really a thing, but is the way in which it is acquired.

Besides, Christianity is not a doctrine to be taught, but rather a life to be lived.