Quotes About Philosophy

Where are we bound? Is it any different, in fact, from where we were going in the first place? Perhaps all of creation from the coddling moth to the elephant was just a grandly detailed thought that God was engrossed in elaborating upon, when suddenly God fell asleep. We are an idea, then. Maybe God has decided that we are not an idea worth thinking anymore.

Clarice Lispector

At last I passed along Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead

He wasn't meek, but he was in his person deeply resigned to what he did. It was this immense resignation to the shape of his life that opened him every day to the experience of

For what is a man, what are we all, but bits of time caught for a moment in a tangle of blood, bones, skin, and brain?

Everything's permissible internally.

Ce qui guide encore le mieux, c'est l'odeur de la merde.

Poate c? tocmai asta c?ut?m prin via??, nimic altceva decât asta, cea mai mare durere cu putin?? pentru a deveni noi înÅŸine înainte de-a muri.

On a bien le droit d'avoir une opinion sur sa propre mort.

The soul is the body's vanity and pleasure as long as the body's in good health, but it's also the urge to escape from the body as soon as the body is sick or things are going badly.

Gelecekten söz eden her kimse namussuzdur,tek geçerli olan güncel oland?r.Kendi ölümsüzlüÄŸüne deÄŸinmek,solucanlara söylev çekmeye benzer.

Plus de mystère, plus de niaiserie, on a bouffé toute sa poésie puisqu'on a vécu jusque-là. Des haricots, la vie.

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

Entre el penis i les matemàtiques, senyor Baryton, no hi ha res! Res! Hi ha el buit!

When you have no imagination, dying is small beer; when you do have an imagination, dying is too much.

Etre seul, c'est s'entrainer a la mort.

To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negliglible and temporary race called mankind, have any existance at all.

Why do you always talk about death?" "Because it's part of us," Quinn said softly "Part of our lives.

God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in The Essence of Christianity , made God in his image.

The idea of God is the ignorance which solves all doubt by repressing it.

To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

Theology is a] web of contradictions and delusions.

The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is impossible to Nature and reason, therefore such a being exists[.]