Quotes About Philosophy

In death, Anand teaches us how to live.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

The meaning of the world does not reside in the world.

Actually, we were at the other extreme from giants: we had become dwarfs! And I mean this quite literally. For, often, the right way to philosophize is to make yourself artificially stupid! Only by being "stupid" can you break the barrier of the seemingly obvious.

Truth is not always provable!

You should know — Aesop was a Greek.' 'What's Aesop got to do with it?

Sad are only those who understan.

Between atheism and superstition, there is this great difference; the latter may authorize some crimes, the former opens the flood-gates to all.

Underlying all true poetry there is a philosophy of life.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

If God is God He is not good, If God is good He is not God; Take the even, take the odd....

Taoist philosophy, "Rest is prior to motion and stillness prior to action.

Montaigne: "To practice death is to practice freedom.71 A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave." Being a slave to our job and our status in the world makes it much harder to put our day behind us and surrender to sleep.

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we can only achieve true wisdom when our soul is liberated from our bodies by death.

Para los estoicos, la forma más segura de encontrar la felicidad sería, por tanto, buscarla en lo único sobre lo que tenemos control: nuestro mundo interior. Todo lo que existe fuera de nosotros puede desaparecer, así que ¿cómo podemos confiarle nuestra felicidad futura y nuestro bienestar?

Socrates said, "the unexamined life is not worth living.

He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow, and in much wisdom is much grief.

spirituality does not necessarily equate to religion.

The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.

Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives.

Who knows whether living is dying, and breathingIs eating, and sleeping is a wool blanket?