Quotes About Philosophy

What you call man is time.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

How long a time lies in one little word?

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

I believe that time wounds all heals. (karma)

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.

One of the advantages of atheism is takes so little of your time.

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.

The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.