Quotes About Philosophy

Confucius-says

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

Do you know what O'Keefe Says about blue? he asked her, blowing out a cloud of smoke, warming to her voice, though he did not remember her face clearly from the opening night's exhibition. What? That it is the color that will remain after everything is destroyed.

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God. Even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with.

Yo creo que estamos aquí para cavilar. Para preguntar. Y que preguntándonos por las cosas grandes encontramos respuestas para las pequeñas, casi por casualidad. Pero sobre las grandes te quedas como al principio. Y cuanto más cavilo y me pregunto, más amor siento.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.' Soren Kierkegaard

My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

Reh Gyi Rasm-e-Azan, Rooh-e-Bilali Na Rahi Falsafa Reh Gya, Talqeen-e-Ghazali Na Rahi Azan yet sounds, but never now Like Bilal's, soulfully; Philosophy, conviction-less, Now mourns its Ghazzali

I don't do anything with my life except romanticise and decay with indecision

he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it

One does not know yet whether Christ was God or the Devil - Buddha is more reassuring.

Now I'm an old man and I won't live another 20 years maybe not another 20 weeks, maybe the next second I'll be carried off to rebirth the worm farm, maybe it's already happened- How should I know, says Allen Ginsberg Maybe I've been dreaming all along-

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

There's a difference between religion and faith, Chandi said, Religion means you've accepted a set of beliefs even if those beliefs would appear to be irrational to anyone who doesn't buy into them. Faith means you've chosen to accept something that you've given yourself the chance to question.

I'll tell you the difference between our countries. Americans think life is serious but not hopeless; the English that life is hopeless but not serious.

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection

Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.

MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

Reality, n. The dream of a mad philosopher.