Quotes About Philosophy

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

Once you label me you negate me.

The nature of consciousness is to define what it calls reality. It's all of your observations that combine to form what it is you think reality is. God plays dice with the universe, and you be the dice, man.

It was hard, to be stripped of the cold comforts of her simple atheistic faith in middle-age. The more so as the evidence seemed to lead to the conclusion that all the religions were true, including the ones that flatly contradicted each other.

Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause—that it must be lived forward.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us — but not suckle us.

Take away the paradox from a thinker and you have a professor.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

Nam ju? nie formy trzeba, ale ?ywej idei.

Veritas filia temporis

Una vida aceptada sin reflexión no merece la pena vivirla.

Sólo sé que no sé nada.

Y si el oráculo ha nombrado a Sócrates, sin duda se ha valido de mí nombre como un ejemplo, y como si dijese a todos los hombres: «El más sabio entre vosotros es aquel que reconoce, como Sócrates, que su sabiduría no es nada».

No es cierto, en general, respecto a todo lo que el alma está dispuesta a hacer y soportar, que cuando preside la sabiduría, todo conduce a su bien; así como todo a su desgracia, si aquella falta?

For me, remembrance of things past has always been a waste of time, and what's the point of tears? I don't know. I've always been focussed on today. Yesterday and tomorrow hold no interest for me. What had to happen, did, and what will happen, will.

He ate off dirty plates and was unfazed. His pillowcase was soiled and stank, but he never thought of changing it. Hamid thought long and hard, but he couldn't understand him. He often asked, 'Babuji, why aren't you revolted by dirtiness?

Dünyan?n en basit, en zavall?, hatta en ahmak adam? bile, insan? hayretten hayrete dü?ürecek ne müthi? ve kar???k bir ruha maliktir. Niçin bunu anlamaktan bu kadar kaç?yor ve insan dedikleri mahluku anla??lmas? ve hakk?nda hüküm verilmesi en kolay ?eylerden biri zannediyoruz?

Göreceksiniz ya, ben dünyadan ziyade kafam?n içinde ya?ayan bir insan?m... Hakiki hayat?m benim için can s?k?c? bir rüyadan ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir...

Dünyada ?imdi onunla yan yana bulunmamam?z kadar mant?ks?z ve lüzumsuz ne vard?r acaba?

?nsanlar?n en zay?f taraflar?, sormadan, ara?t?rmadan, dü?ünmeden, kafalar?n? patlatmadan inanmak hususundaki hayret verici temayülleridir. Dünyadaki yalanc? peygamberleri yeti?tirmek ve beslemek için en iyi gübre, i?te bu bilmeden inanmak için ç?rp?nan kalabal?kt?r.

Acaba dünyada benim kadar manas?z ?eyler dü?ünen var m?d?r ?Bir de utanmadan ak?ll? geçiniyoruz.