Quotes About Philosophy

Si los conocimientos son para la mente y las experiencias para el cuerpo, cuando aplicas los conocimientos y creas una experiencia nueva, le enseñas al cuerpo lo que la mente ha aprendido intelectualmente. Los conocimientos sin la experiencia no son más que filosofía; la experiencia sin conocimientos no es más que ignorancia. Existe una progresión que debe darse. Tienes que adquirir conocimientos y vivirlos, aceptarlos emocionalmente.

Essentially, Descartes started a belief system that imposed a duality between the concepts of mind and matter. For centuries, that division stood as the accepted understanding of the nature of reality.

Ésta es mi filosofía del entrenamiento: un deportista debería hacer, en el momento adecuado, la mínima cantidad de entrenamiento específico que proporciona una mejora continua.

Fíjate que no dice "entrena con el kilometraje mínimo". Otra manera de formularlo podría ser "usa tu tiempo de entrenamiento de forma sensata". Para aquellos que tenemos un trabajo de jornada completa, esposa, hijos, una casa que mantener y otras responsabilidades, usar el tiempo de entrenamiento de forma sensata es más que una filosofía. Es una necesidad.

The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

Some Arab invented the idea of the number zero," I said. "Isn't that weird? Someone had to think zero up."   Because it isn't obvious—that nothing can be something. That something which can't be measured or seen could still exist and have meaning. Same with the soul, when you think about it.  

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

Una buena novela para ella tenía que ser un viaje emocional y filosófico y además enseñarle vocabulario nuevo.

Ideas are as real as rocks.

She had learned from Jakob to think of people who spoke of blessings and faith as simple and a little infirm. People who thought things happened for a reason were to be pitied. Such folk had given up their curiosity about the universe for a comforting children's story.

It has everything to do with your world view- your basic set of beleifs and whether or not those beliefs include God.

KINDNESS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WISDOM; RECOGNITION OF THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM. I have never found this to be the case. I've gotten this far being wise without being kind, and my feeling is: If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Sartre said "Hell is other people," while Streisand sang "People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.

I can sit and view the scene with detachment because I know that delays are part of the game. It is what it is – but many people haven't discovered that yet.

Representing Pharisaic views, for example, Josephus catered to the Greco-Roman intelligentsia, formulating a body-soul dualism quite at odds with Israel's Scriptures but very much at home in the Platonic tradition.

Maybe he who dies with the most toys doesn't win, thought Bennett. Maybe he's just dead.

This is what drives me crazy whenever I hear people say things like, "Ask the universe for what you want, and you'll get it," why I fucking hated that Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist that everybody was reading int he late nineties. Whenever I saw the book in anybody's hands on the subway I always wanted to say, "So the reason a million Tustis were just slaughtered in Rwanda is that they didn't ask the universe not to kill them ?

My cooking philosophy, what I try to do, is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines, compared to some current trends that are maybe more adding additional things, like molecular cuisine, with a lot of additives and chemicals, which are now showing that they could be bad for your health.

We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse--we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse.

I don't know what you believe in. I believe we just stop. Because if we move on to an afterlife, any kind of afterlife, that means there will be other people there. I'm tired of the chit chat. Oh, that is a handsome boy. He takes after his grandfather. Did they change the breakfast again? It tastes different to me. For Eternity? No thanks.

I don't want a world without pain, or loss. I just want them to mean something.

When it snows, that's just God's way of still not existing.

Hernhutter, în?elept, îl aprob? ?i d?du drept exemplu existen?a uman?: nimeni nu în?elege nimic ?i tocmai de aceea o accept? ca pe un lucru firesc.