Quotes About Philosophy

The temporary suffering of existence is worth more than the final void of nothingness.

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

Your generosity with transmitting ancient Chinese wisdom into the simple act of running fills us with deep respect.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Trapped within the confines of his mind, he is too aware of every thought passing through it, as if he were outside, looking in. At night he often lies awake ruminating endlessly about what's wrong with him, about death, and about the meaning of existence itself. At times his arms and legs feel like they don't belong with his body. But most of the time, his mind feels like it is operating apart from the body that contains it.

Harvard—a place, I slowly came to understand, that could teach me many things, including how to think, but that could not teach me goodness. Not because it taught the opposite, but because moral education is simply not what secular Western education or secular Western culture is for.

Denn, wie einer von Daniels Lehrern zu sagen pflegte: "Die ZEit an sich wird erst durch Akte wahrer Menschlichkeit erschaffen.

The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.

Jesus argues that what should be contemplated is not the cutting short of these particular lives, but the fact that life terminates.

Dethroning Jesus seeks to determine whether we have the right to get to that kind of a discussion or whether Lessing's ditch is so great that we should simply throw up our hands and do the best we can to muddle through.

Joy is the natural conclusion to the unfairness of time itself.

Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness.

with its graceful language and poetic conceit, and even more because it expressed his own philosophy of science. To wit: As earnestly as men may seek to understand the workings of the universe, they must remember that God is not hampered by their limited logic—that all observed effects may have been wrought by Him in any one of an infinite number of omnipotent ways, and these must ever evade mortal comprehension.

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

La sagesse procurait rarement des réponses, elle se contentait de redéfinir les questions.

While the West tends to medicate pain, the East helps us to embrace it.

Epictetus, stated it well when he wrote, "It is not the thing itself, but the view we take of it which distresses us.

It's not even been a two-and-two-make five sort of day, it's more like a two-and-two-make...fish

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically ' they really mean, 'not really.'

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

For Marx, history is the story of a constant dialectical struggle, not between abstract Hegelian ideas but between all too real classes and economic forces. This is why his philosophy is sometimes called Dialectical Materialism