Quotes About Philosophy

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

The good is the beautiful.

I don't believe so much in good and evil.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

I read Herman Hesse's 'Siddhartha' while I was writing 'Lord of Light' along with many other things. It seemed a good time to read it so I could see what he had to say about Buddha. In my first chapter, I was thinking in terms of the big battle scene in the 'Mahabarata.' It helped me in visualizing the battle in my novel.

My philosophy about life is that we may not be in it for a long time, but we're in it for a good time.

I might sound like the weird artist hippy girl or whatever, but I don't have a complaint about what jazz is or what I'm doing with music. And that's more of a philosophy on my life. I could find things that maybe could shift or change, but ultimately, it's like that's not a good way to live our lives and think about what we do.

Sangue e popolo! Siamo franchi! Non erano anche questi dei concetti vani? In ogni età gli uomini si cospargono l'amaro cibo della vita con la droga di idee diverse, che lo rendono ancora più disgustoso

In ogni età gli uomini si cospargono l'amaro cibo della vita con la droga di idee diverse, che lo rendono ancora più disgustoso.

Which is more puzzling, the existence of suffering or its frequent absence?

Nada siempre es más sencillo que algo. Más triste también, pero más sencillo.

To chew and digest everything, however—that is the genuine swine-nature! Ever to say ye-a—that hath only the ass learnt, and those like it!

To live is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering

I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do.

This is my way, what is your way? The way doesn't exist.

But meanwhile my store-bought arteries were slowly hardening, and every day six thousand cells were dying in my irreplaceable brain; and meanwhile stars slowed in their flight and the universe dragged itself toward its ultimate entropic death, and meanwhile - Meanwhile everything, if you stopped to think of it, was skidding downhill. And I never gave any of it a thought.

Those who have abandoned God cling that much more firmly to the faith in morality.

Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood

Basic insight regarding the nature of decadence: it's supposed causes are its consequences.

nihilism represents the ultimate logical conclusion of our great values and ideals—because we must experience nihilism before we can find out what value these values really had.'— We require, sometime, new values.

The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values—something whose like has never been seen on earth

Fredrich Nietzsche

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.