Quotes About Philosophy

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good?

Man is God truly alive

You are a Ciceronian, not a Christian.

A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

The science of mathematics treats its object as though it were something abstracted mentally, whereas it is not abstract in reality.

It is not our body which feels, not our mind which thinks, but we, as single human beings, who both feel and think.

Toda poesia é uma ontologia.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

When I thought about death in those years, I didn't quite believe in it.

But many mortals, devoted to their stomachs and to sleep, have passed through life untaught and uncouth, like foreign travelers; and of course, contrary to nature, their bodies were a source of pleasure to them, their minds a burden. In the case of such people, I asses their life and death alike, since silence surrounds each. -p4

My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

The difference between me and the surrealists is that I am a surrealist.

Hay dos clases de fumadores, querida: la de los que fuman para crear un ambiente, una atmósfera para sí mismos y que se hartan tan pronto como lo consiguen; y la de los que fuman, sencillamente, porque están hartos del ambiente. Los primeros pertenecen a la clase de los estetas, a la clase de los que son ligeramente imbéciles, los Orminys; yo pertenezco a la segunda, que es la legítima, que es dogmática sin tapujos.

Creo en el humanismo del ojo del culo.

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me