Quotes About Philosophy

By far, the oldest of the claptrap philosophies of mankind is astrology.

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

WHAT IS REALITY? It's both the simplest question to answer—and the hardest. Over the ages, it has baffled both philosophers and physicists. In The Republic, Plato described the true world as nothing more than a flickering shadow on a cave wall. Oddly enough, millennia later, scientists have come full circle to a similar conclusion.

I don't believe in princerple,But oh I du in interest.

That you're Borges.' Manny laughed. 'Of course you are, you dumb shit. That's the whole point.

But the law of life is change; nothing continues in the same way for any length of time; happiness must become unhappiness, and will be succeeded again by the joy it had displaced. The past also must be reckoned with; it is seldom as far behind us as we could wish: it is more often in front, blocking the way, and the future trips over it just when we think that the road is clear and joy our own.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, For it's not the same river, and it's not the same man.' – attributed to the ancient Herakleitos

He took a meditative puff on his stogy, and informed himself that time was a funny thing. Old Man Time just walked along, and he didn't even blow a How-do-you-do through his whiskers. He just walked on past you. Things just change.

I came home from work one day and felt compelled to write a book about free will.

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we find beautiful, we quiver before it.

Because, what I am trying to say—what I was thinking in the car from Antwerp last night—good doesn't always follow from good deeds, nor bad deeds result from bad, does it? Even the wise and good cannot see the end of all actions. Scary idea!

and I think of what Hobie said: beauty alters the grain of reality.

aristo poetika'da der ki,'' dedi henry, ''ceset gibi gerçekte görmesi rahats?z edici ÅŸeyler sanat eserlerinde bakmaya doyulmayacak manzaralara dönüÅŸebilir.

La muerte es la madre de la belleza. —¿Y qué es la belleza? —El terror.

E talvez seja ridículo continuar nesse raciocínio, embora não importe já que ninguém nunca vai ver isso, mas será que faz algum sentido saber que acaba mal pra todo mundo, até para os mais felizes de nós, e que todos perdemos tudo o que importa no final, e ao mesmo tempo saber que, apesar de tudo isso, segundo a cruel elaboração do jogo, é possível jogá-lo com uma espécie de alegria?

I was fairly sure this death had affected him more than he let show. Then again, I suspect that Julian's cheery, Socratic indifference to matters of life and death kept him from feeling too sad about anything for very long.

I see you are philosopher by nature.

To try to make some meaning out of all this seems

Ninguém nunca, jamais, vai conseguir me convencer de que a vida é uma coisa incrível e gratificante. Porque, esta é a verdade: a vida é catástrofe.

Tenemos el arte para no morir de la verdad.   NIETZSCHE

I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?

doesn't always follow from good deeds, nor bad deeds result from bad, does it? Even the wise and good cannot see the end of all actions.