Quotes About Philosophy

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.

We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.

Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.

Do not spend your time thinking about the world or your relationships to individuals. These are all impermanent. They have only to do with the body.

The speed of time is one second per second.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows

It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

Time does not exist - we invented it