Quotes About Philosophy

Toujours, imaginer sera plus grand que vivre.

If we were to give the imagination its due in the philosophical systems of the universe, we should find, at their very source, an adjective. Indeed, to those who want to find the essence of a world philosophy, one could give the following advice-look for its adjective.

Every object in the world, loved for its own sake, has a right to its own nothingness. Every being pours out being, a little of its being, the shadow of its being, into its own non-being.

L'imagination n'est pas, comme le suggère l'étymologie, la faculté de former des images de la réalité ; elle est la faculté de former des images qui dépassent la réalité, qui chantent la réalité. Elle est une faculté de surhumanité.

La ciencia es la estética de la inteligencia.

Ce qui ne peut être écrit mérite-t-il d'être vécu ?

Avant de penser, il faut étudier. Seuls les philosophes pensent avant d'étudier.

En la vida hay que acostumbrarse a todo, incluso a la eternidad.

Most humans subscribe to the policy of 'an eye for an eye, a life for a life'. Many of your religions are famous for this formula, which is well known throughout the UNIVERSE for its stupidity. Your christ and your buddah had a different vision, but nobody paid any attention to them, not even the christians and buddhists.

Between you and me, Plato was a hack. All that crap about higher forms and caves? He was drunk when he wrote it. I know. I was there.

Many modern artists, philosophers, and theologians reject the knowledge of the past. Thus they must continually start over again from ground zero, their vision restricted to their own narrow perspectives, making themselves artificially primitive.

Why is it that postmodernists, who believe there are no moral absolutes, are so moralistic?

Reason shows reason can only bring pain - how wise to forget and be happy again!

It is beyond value, which means it is worthless.

Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them.

In ancient Greece, skeptics were those who thought, not those who scoffed.

One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction.

Rain symbolizes mercy and sunlight charity, but rain and sunlight are better than mercy and charity. Otherwise they would degrade the things they symbolize.

Gurloes was one of the most complex men I have known, because he was a complex man trying to be simple. Not a simple, but a complex man's idea of simplicity.

Do you think there are answers to everything here? Is that true in the place you come from?

What went wrong? That is the question, and not To be or not to be, for all of Shakespeare.

By the same argument, the life must reside in each joint of every finger, and surely that is impossible. How big is a man's life? asked Ultan. I have no way of knowing, but isn't it larger than that? You see it from the beginning, and anticipate much. I, recollecting it from its termination, know how little there has been.

You must never let yourself be turned aside from life's serious and important questions by ridicule.

All time exists. That is the truth beyond the legends the epopts tell. If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind us?