Quotes About Philosophy

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds—even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself.

Nothing is True, All is Permitted

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to my church as a human being.

There is no heresy or philosophy so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

Manichean dualism is the single worst idea people ever came up with — this notion that you can divide humankind into the children of light and the children of darkness.

Face it, people, there is more to your malaise than celestial mechanics. If you want to know why you feel so bad, you must look beyond universal gravitation.

However, I would argue that there is one simple question that implies all of the above questions and gets to the heart of the issues concerning the ball's motion. That one single question is the following: Does the ball have any choice?

She stopped me cold when she said, 'What color is the wind?'

No eres mas que una chispa en el momento del tiempo situado entre dos eternidades, el pasado y el futuro

President Jefferson and the members of the current Congress. Whenever the man commits some new act meriting opprobrium, even outrage, his henchmen in the Congress scurry about like mad to search out arguments to make it sound as though what he has done is not just legal, but is somehow congruent with his political philosophy.

I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only man who views time sequentially and tries to impose a solar calendar upon it. What if other people, both dead and unborn, are living out their lives in the same space we occupy, without our knowledge or consent?

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflection on human nature?

But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature.

Joy is the noblest human act. —ST. THOMAS AQUINAS

Finally, Ignatian spirituality is about freedom and detachment

Aristotle, who believed that we become like the object of our contemplation.

I decided long ago that life's absurd. If you don't develop a sense of humor, it will drive you mad.

So many times Czgowchwz, or Czgowchwz to this or that root or powder, was still Czgowchwz, as is number one; and Czgowchwz over Czgowchwz, like Czgowchwz in an infinite hall of electric Czgowchwz mirrors, was but Czgowchwz.

She ruminated, wondering in terms of ration, quotient, multiplicand, root, power, infinity, surd.

The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter—perfect in its bud as in its bloom—with no reason to explain its presence—no mission to fulfill—a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist—a puzzle to the botanist—an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man.