Quotes About Philosophy

It seemed to her that he was ready to live and die for emotional errors as women did, but that men he did not call them emotional errors; he called them history, philosophy, metaphysics....

I read the paper about suicides and murders and I understand it all thoroughly. I feel murderous, suicidal. I feel somehow that it is a disgrace to do nothing, to just bide one's time, to take it philosophically, to be sensible.

I feel that if I sit down now I will do some bad thinking about Lawrence. Remember Gide on Dostoevsky—"When he began to explain himself he showed himself a bad thinker.

I write emotional algebra.

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

Those who think of their house as only a 'machine to live in' should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who also lived in a house, but a house that embodied a cosmology.

Free thought is a passion; it is much rather the thoughts than ourselves that are free.

While there may have lived an individual teacher who gave the ancient wisdom its peculiarly "Buddhist" coloring, his personality is completely overshadowed, as he must have wished it should be, by the eternal substance with which he identified himself. In other words, "the Buddha is only anthropomorphic, not a man".

The idea of Sufism as a vaguely deist, New-Age-style philosophy with lots of poetry, alcohol and soft drugs is also immensely appealing to members of Pakistan's Westernized elites, whom it permits to follow a Westernized and hedonistic lifestyle without feeling that they have broken completely with their religion and its traditions.

At the very least, when we die we will be as if asleep, in the same place we were before birth, so why fear death? Scattered on the wind, unaware as we were before we came into this world, with no memory of any of it.

I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

Mon but n'est pas de penser neuf mais de penser juste.

No, what worries me, I readily admit, is everything (that is to say, anything and everything) - everything, that is, except the All, which I find soothing.

La liberté de l'esprit est le seul bien, peut-être, qui soit plus précieux que la paix. C'est que la paix, sans elle, n'est que servitude.

Provas? Se houvesse, para que a fé? Um Deus que se poderia demonstrar seria um Deus?

Viver no presente, como diziam os estóicos, como dizem todos os sábios, não é um sonho, não é um ideal, não é uma utopia: é a simplíssima e dificílima verdade de viver. A eternidade? Se ela é ''um perpétuo hoje'', como queria Santo Agostinho, é inútil esperá-la amanhã.

L'apparence est le tout du réel et du vrai – ce pourquoi il n'y a ni Réalité absolue, ni Vérité éternelle, ni Totalité sensée ou structurée. Pyrrhon

La vie est trop courte pour qu'on puisse entreprendre de la penser avant de la vivre. C'est

Já o ateísmo é uma forma de humildade. É considerar-se um animal, como de fato somos, e deixar-nos o encargo de nos tornar humanos.

Se não creio em Deus é também, e talvez principalmente, porque preferiria que ele existisse. É a aposta de Pascal, se quiserem, mas invertida. (...) Ora, Deus é tanto menos verossímil, parece-me, quanto mais é desejável: ele corresponde tão bem a nossos desejos mais fortes que é o caso de indagar se não o inventamos por isso.

Existing is occupation enough.

What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told.