Quotes About Philosophy

I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it—and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil.

The imponderable bloom, declared by a discredited philosophy to be the actual essence of intercourse, was rightly ignored by the Machine, just as the imponderable bloom of the grape was ignored by the manufacturers of artificial fruit. Something "good enough" had long since been accepted by our race.

The tide had begun to ebb. Margaret leant over the parapet and watched it sadly. Mr. Wilcox had forgotten his wife, Helen her lover; she herself was probably forgetting. Every one moving. Is it worth while attempting the past when there is this continual flux even in the hearts of men?

Sei que morrerei um dia e não quero morrer, nem quero que tu morras. Se algum de nós partir, não resta nada para ambos. Não sei se chamas a isso puro e imaculado. - Sim, chamo. - Nesse caso, prefiro ser sujo - disse Maurice, após uma pausa.

She was not a Christian in the accepted sense; she did not believe that God had ever worked among us as a young artisan.

We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us rather love one another, and work and rejoice.

and laughed at his theories, and proved that no man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

He felt that nonsense and beauty have close connections,—closer connections than Art will allow,—and that both would remain when his own heaviness and his own ugliness had perished.

The imponderable bloom, declared by a discredited philosophy to be the actual essence of intercourse, was rightly ignored by the Machine, just as the imponderable bloom of the grape was ignored by the manufacturers of artificial fruit. Something 'good enough' had long since been accepted by our race.

how thoughtful is thoughtful enough.... how much thinking does thinking over ...

antagonists in Rand's novels do not live by reason ... mediocrities who cannot think for themselves and conformists who cannot be bothered to.

In The Science of Getting Rich, W. D. Wattles wrote that we must always give more in service to our customers and to those around us than we are getting in return.

Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman Emperor, said: "A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about.

What is a communist? One who hath yearningsFor equal division of unequal earnings.

No atheism simply falls from heaven.

when thinking becomes involved with faith, it will also understand that God cannot be thought without faith. That is the initial point from which evangelical theology proceeds.

Most of the Founders and Framers were Deists. Deism is a religion that believes in a God who really doesn't give a shit.

Maybe life didn't make sense but then it was our business, I guess, to impose meaning on it.

because no matter how we try to explain it—through religion or randomness, it doesn't matter—existence just doesn't seem to make any sense.

I had a philosophy instructor at the U of I say that the only question that mattered in all of philosophy was Verlaine's "Why are we born to suffer and die?

Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.- Elminster of Shadowdale

Buddhism is best understood as a philosophy rather than a religion due to the fact that the Buddhist does not necessarily embrace a God.

Buddhism is more about an ethic and philosophy than an actual religion.