Quotes About Philosophy

And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

But is it true love, in the rectum? Thats what bothers me sometimes.

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Clov: Do you believe in the life to come?Hamm: Mine was always like that.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

To be is to think and to be thinkable. To live is to continue thinking and to remember having done so.

All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

And wisely tell what hour o' th' dayThe clock doth strike, by algebra.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Words are clothes that thoughts wear

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

We want words to do more than they can. We try to do with them what comes to very much like trying to mend a watch with a pickaxe or to paint a miniature with a mop; we expect them to help us to grip and dissect that which in ultimate essence is as ungrippable as shadow. Nevertheless there they are; we have got to live with them, and the wise course is to treat them as we do our neighbours, and make the best and not the worst of them.

Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their whole lives to the development of mechanical life. The upshot is simply a question of time, but that the time will come when the machines will hold the real supremacy over the world and its inhabitants is what no person of a truly philosophic mind can for a moment question.

Cuando muera, lo haré con la plena y segura esperanza de que no habrá resurrección, pero esa muerte me aportará una paz absoluta.

Not only is nothing good or ill but thinking makes it so, but nothing is at all, except in so far as thinking has made it so.

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

Inexorable etrangete! D'une vie mal defendue, rouler jusqu'aux des vifs du bonheur. How inexorably strange! In this shaky life, to throw even the quick dice of happiness. -Rene Char