Quotes About Philosophy

Good-bye — if you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican 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. To be a Gringo in Mexico — ah, that is euthanasia.

You scoundrel, you have wronged me, hissed the philosopher, May you live forever!

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed

In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent

TRUTH, n.: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.    ACADEMY, n. [from ACADEME] A modern school where football is taught.

Pessimism n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

IRRELIGION, n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.

ALCOHOL, n. (Arabic al kohl, a paint for the eyes.) The essential principle of all.

OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.

PANTHEISM, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.

We know no more than the ancients; we only know other things, but nothing in which is an assurance of perpetuity, and little that is truly wisdom.

ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient philosophies were of two kinds,—exoteric, those that the philosophers themselves could partly understand, and esoteric, those that nobody could understand. It is the latter that have most profoundly affected modern thought and found greatest acceptance in our time.

NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only be a process of reasoning—which is a phenomenon. Nevertheless, the discovery and exposition of noumena offer a rich field for what Lewes calls the endless variety and excitement of philosophic thought. Hurrah (therefore) for the noumenon!

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed. The question, Is life worth living? has been much discussed; particularly by those who think it is not, many of whom have written at great length in support of their view and by careful observance of the laws of health enjoyed for long terms of years the honors of successful controversy.

CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, Cogito ergo sum—whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved, however, thus: Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum— I think that I think, therefore I think that I am; as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

ACADEMIA: Originalmente enramada en la que los filósofos buscaban un sentido en la naturaleza; ahora, escuela en la que los imbéciles buscan un significado en la filosofía.

One cannot eliminate unhappiness any more than one can eliminate darkness.

She leaned a little closer to whisper it. "Primrose Heights. Calling a thing a different thing don't make it a different thing, now does it?" "Wouldn't know," croaked Broad, who beat men for a living and called it labour relations, "I'm no philosopher.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

If knowledge is for the mind, and experience is for the body, then when you apply knowledge and create a new experience, you teach the body what the mind has intellectually learned. Knowledge without experience is merely philosophy; experience without knowledge is ignorance. There's a progression that has to take place. You have to take knowledge and live it—embrace it emotionally.

Knowledge without experience is merely philosophy; experience without knowledge is ignorance.

Éste es el modelo más realista de un átomo. Materialmente es «nada», pero potencialmente lo es todo.