Quotes About Philosophy

yourself." "Yes," I agreed. "It has a specific kind of satisfaction, the bad of it guarantees it as real experience. This is what we go through, and it's what existence is like. The brain is a mirror and reflects the world.

the cant and rant of pipsqueaks about Inauthenticity and Forlornness.

Now: the first requirement of stability in a human being was that the said human being should really desire to exist. This is what Spinoza says.

Do you believe in transcendence downward as well as upward?

Poštovani prof. dr. Heideggeru, zanimalo bi me šta Vi mislite pod izrazom 'utapanje u svakidašnjicu'. Kad je došlo do tog utapanja? Gdje ste Vi stajali kad se to dogodilo?

Now I was too old to be a pupil, and Ravelstein didn't believe in adult education. It was far too late for me to Platonize. And what people called culture was nothing but a fancier term for their ignorance.

Wait a minute, though: Sammler denied himself the privilege of the high-principled intellectual who must always be applying the purest standards and thumping the rest of his species on the head. When he tried to imagine a just social order, he could not do it. A non-corrupt society? He could not do that either. There were no revolutions that he could remember which had not been made for justice, freedom, and pure goodness. Their last state was always more nihilistic than the first.

Maybe he saw that my mystery was, at bottom, nothing but misery.

Ja kriv? Kako to misliš? - Jer si ti intelektualac, a oženio si intelektualku. U svakom intelektualcu krije se negdje budala. Vi ljudi ne znate odgovoriti niti na vlastita pitanja...

And I hold with Spinoza (I hope he won't mind) that to demand what is impossible for any human being, to exercise power where it can't be exercised, is tyranny.

But oh, unreality! Unreality, unreality! That has been my scheme for a troubled but eternal life.

Our subject: science and religion; the boundaries of scientific knowledge, the certainty that there are other kinds of knowing.

WHETHER people who are greatly respected know what they are saying: Laura (Riding) Jackson warns of the danger that "thinkers" can constitute for the rest of humanity.

Reading Sartre on the Middle East, I wonder whether he really knows what he is saying.

There is something funny about the human condition, and civilized intelligence makes fun of its own ideas.

Nu. Nu ma întelegi. De ce lasa el sa existe boala si bolnavi? Din doua una:ori e rau, ori nu prea e cine stie ce de capul lui.

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

Hay pocas cosas que pongan con tanta seguridad de buen humor como el relato de alguna calamidad que se ha sufrido últimamente, o también la sincera confesión de una debilidad personal.

GeçmiÅŸte kimse yaÅŸamad?, gelecekte kimse yaÅŸamayacak; her türlü yaÅŸam?n biçimi ÅŸimdidir; hiçbir kötülüÄŸün al?p götüremeyeceÄŸi bir mülktür bu.

If you put a spoonful of wine in a barrel full of sewage, you get sewage. If you put a spoonful of sewage in a barrel full of wine, you get... sewage.

Whoever takes a gloomy view regards this world as a kind of hell and is accordingly concerned only with procuring for himself a small fireproof room.