Quotes About Philosophy

Você deseja que haja justiça. Mas o sofrimento dos bons e os prazeres dos maus nos dizem que o universo não é uma ordem moral.

A morte não mais me causa medo. O que ela me dá é uma imensa tristeza.

Não há razões para a alegria. Ela é uma fonte da eternidade que emerge no tempo.

Epicurus said that there are only three important ingredients to happiness: friendship, freedom (not to be owned by anyone), and an analysed life. The more you lack these three things, the more you'll want power and money, and they always lead to unhappiness.

Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?

When reason has followed its road to the end, the point of crisis is reached and man is brought to the great question mark over his own existence.

The basic idea is simple: All is One. Different religions just find different ways of expressing this universal truth.

Death is simple, but my evasions are complex.

This is like the joke where the guy climbs the mountain and asks the guru, 'What is the secret of life?,' and the guru says, 'All is One,' and the guys says, 'Are you kidding?,' and the guru says, 'You mean it isn't?

As Aquinas, the quintessential theologian, says: "The notion of form is most fully realized in existence itself. And in God existence is not acquired by anything, but God is existence itself subsistent. It is clear, then, that God himself is both limitless and perfect."28

my favorite Zen saying," said Dee. "Once you're born, the worst has already happened.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

There's little comfort in the wise.

Our ideas do not make the world, the world makes our ideas. Marx is therefore a materialist; Hegel, an idealist.

Hegel claimed that reality was essentially reason and logic – "whatever is rational is real, and whatever is real is rational".

the hunting of animals was distasteful to me. Live and let live was always my creed.

It is better to be a human without any gifts than a Jinn or a genius with one too many.

The deer's life is over, but he has not lived in fear of death. It is only man's imagination and fear of the hereafter that makes him afraid of meeting death.

Must everything have a purpose? Must a star have a purpose? Must a pretty sparkler have a purpose other than to emit light? Must a beautiful stone have a purpose?

There is no moral to the story, any more than there is a moral to life. We cannot foresee when a bolt from the blue will put an end to the best-laid plans of mice and men.

Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.

I am still on my zigzag way, pursuing the diagonal between reason and heart.

Yesterday, I was sad, tomorrow i may be sad again, but today i know that i am happy. I want to live on and on, delighting like a pagan in all that is physical; and i know that this one lifetime, however long, cannot satisfy my heart.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.