Quotes About Philosophy

Moi ce qui m'a toujours paru bizarre, c'est que les larmes ont été prévues au programme. Ça veut dire qu'on a été prévu pour pleurer. Il fallait y penser. Il y a pas un constructeur qui se respecte qui aurait fait ça.

It's too pragmatic for me," Valenti said. "The know-how is good enough for technology, not for science.

Si dice che la cosa più tremenda del nazismo sia il suo lato disumano. Sì. Ma ci si deve arrendere all'evidenza: questo lato disumano fa parte dell'umano. Fintantoché non si riconoscerà che la disumanità è cosa umana, si resterà in una pietosa bugia.»

C'est horrible de vivre une époque ou au mot sentiment, on vous répond sentimentalisme. Il faudra bien pourtant qu'un jour vienne où l'affectivité sera reconnue comme le plus grand des sentiments et rejettera l'intellect dominateur.

He didn't believe in God, but he believed even less in cheapness. Besides, life's never been anything else except a brief, frightened, bewildered shopping expedition.

A civilization worthy of that name will always feel guilty toward Man and that is, precisely, what makes it a civilization." Pascal, probably. It's always Pascal with the French, when it's not La Rochefoucauld. Aristocratic bastards.

Well, anyhow, he thought, the French say that bad temper and stubbornness make one live longer, so I may still be around for a while...

Give an intellectual any ideal and any evil passion and he will always succeed in harmonizing the twain.

it must be admitted that on neither side have they brought honor to the cause of reason, which they have not been able to protect against the winds of violence and folly.

Il faut savoir allier le pessimisme de l´intelligence à l´optimisme de la volonté.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India!

Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying?

The fundamental sanity of Indian civilization has been due to an absence of Satan.

Some forms of Indian asceticism, although not all, have a socio-political dimension and these cannot be marginalized as merely the wish to negate life.

Religion rarely fights for the equality of all in material life.

A fundamental sanity in Indian civilization has been due to an absence of Satan.

One is often struck by how different the message of the Gita would have been and how very much closer to non-violence if Gautama Buddha had been the charioteer of Arjuna instead of Krishna.

The tortures occur," he wrote. "If they are unnecessary, then there is no God, or a bad one. If there is a good God, then these tortures are necessary for no even moderately good Being could possibly inflict them if they weren't.

The tortures occur," he wrote. "If they are unnecessary, then there is no God, or a bad one. If there is a good God, then these tortures are necessary for no even moderately good Being could possibly inflict or permit them if they weren't.

Stoicism is a logical philosophy.

He could give me plenty of money but he's got this philosophy that his boys ought to feel some hardships or else they'll all spoil." "A man of principles;" Jesse said. "People say that about themselves when really they only want to make you unhappy.

Ideas are very important for the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes much more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we ca make real change that lasts.

Refuting the false promises requires philosophic understanding of economic interventionism, central banking, and the deeply flawed foreign policy of meddling in the affairs of other nations.

Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes much more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts.