Quotes About Philosophy

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

Dark is a way and light is a place, / Heaven that never was / Nor will be ever is always true.

One is a Buddhist if he or she accepts the following four truths: All compounded things are impermanent. All emotions are pain. All things have no inherent existence. Nirvana is beyond concepts.

It is not appropriate to ask a Buddhist, "What is the purpose of life?" because the question suggests that somewhere out there, perhaps in a cave or on a mountaintop, an ultimate purpose exists. The

Although it is nonreligious and nontheistic, it's difficult to present Buddhism without sounding theoretical and religious. As

Emptiness is consciousness itself.

John Stuart MillBy a mighty effort of willOvercame his natural bonhomieAnd wrote Principles of Political Economy.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

Cady, I'm serious. We should NOT always do what we're afraid to do,' says Mirren heatedly. 'We never should.' 'Why not?' 'You could die. You could get hurt. If you are terrified, there's probably a good reason. You should trust your impulses.' 'So what's your philosophy, then?' Johnny asks her. 'Be a giant chickenhead?' 'Yes,' says Mirren. 'That and the kindness thing I said before.

there is very little you can change. you need to accept the world as it is

Being and Nothingness by Sartre.

because human existence is ultimately meaningless.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

A book is a postponed suicide.

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say "we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.

In a world without melancholy, nightingales would start burping

O não-saber é o fundamento de tudo, ele cria o todo através de um acto que repete a cada instante, produz este mundo e qualquer outro, uma vez que está sempre a tomar como real aquilo que o não é. O não-saber é o gigantesco equívoco que serve de base a todas as nossas verdades, o não-saber é mais antigo e mais poderoso do que todos os deuses juntos.

Ne pas naître est sans contredit la meilleur formule qui soit. Elle n'est malheureusement à la portée de personne

Le réel me donne de l'asthme.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Pathos, piety, courage, —they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

watching the original thousand-year Reich collapse before his eyes, the 36-year-old Hegel felt compelled to come up with an explanation and this led him to formulate a philosophy of history.