Quotes About Philosophy

She believed in nothing, if it wasn't for her skepticism she would be an athiest.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an athiest.

It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.

Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.

Of course, in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too.

The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.

In the end you can't save your soul and life by thought. But if you think , the least of the consolation prizes is the world.

So things go on as before with those who think a great deal and effect nothing, and those who think nothing evidently doing it all...

Ravelstein mentioned that Keynes had married a Russian ballerina. He also explained to me that Uranus had fathered Aphrodite but that she had had no mother. She was conceived by the sea foam. He would say such things not because he thought I was ignorant of them but because he judged that I needed at a given moment to have my thoughts directed toward them.

A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evil. Seen from the highest point of metaphysics. To a rational mind, nothing bad ever really happens. He was talking high-minded balls. Twaddle! I thought. I said, 'Oh? Do you mean that every gas chamber has a silver lining?

To him, perpetual thought of death was a sin. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.

What's life? Metabolism? That's what it is for the bugs.

If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are, and what this life is for.

Death is good for some people.

It hardly does much good to have a complex mind without actually being a philosopher.

If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

Ne biti budala možda nije vrijedno teških alternativa.

Sre?a je besmislen pa ?ak i škodljiv pojam ako nije doista sveobuhvatna...

Ljepota nije ljudski izum.

Ima u tome neke mudrosti, pomislio je, kao da bi posrtanjem mogao vratiti ravnotežu, ili priznaju?i malo ludila do?i pameti. A uživao je u šalama na svoj ra?un.

More than human, can you have any use for life? Less than human, you don't either.

But can thought wake you from the dream of existence? Not if it becomes a second realm of confusion, another more complicated dream, the dream of intellect, the delusion of total explanations.