Quotes About Philosophy

Il tempo è un galantuomo

Occam's razor. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

Holmesian philosophy more apt: 'When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Absolute Truth is not a belief, not a religion, not a philosophy, not a momentary experience, and not a transient spiritual experience either. It is neither static nor in motion, neither good nor bad. It is other than all of that, more other than you can ever imagine. Truth cannot be touched by thought or imagined by the mind. It can only be found in the heart of universal being. To know thy self is the key. To bring forth your being is The Way.

The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

The wise man will love; all others will desire.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

Is death the greatest evil that can happen to anyone?

That's where all the trouble in life comes from. Thinking.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend," observed Poirot philosophically. "You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

Nobody understands the art of living nowadays,... Catching trains, making appointments, fixing times for everything—all nonsense. Get up with the sun I say, have your meals when you feel like it, and never tie yourself to a time or a date. I could teach people how to live if they would listen to me.

He was at the stage of a meal when one becomes philosophic.

It's no use resenting a thing that you've no power to stop.

An unfairness of the good God,

Death is for other people.

Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject.