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Quotes About Philosophy

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
~ Theodor Adorno
The worst old age is that of the mind.
~ William Hazlitt
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
~ William Shakespeare
If you imagine that once you have accomplished your ambitions you will have time to turn to the Way, you will discover that your ambitions never come to an end.
~ Yoshida Kenko
Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
~ Elie Wiesel
Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller.
~ Elif Safak
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
~ Emile M. Cioran
IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.
~ Emily Dickinson
No, I don't believe in the wasting of time, But I don't believe that I'm wasting mine
~ Fiona Apple
Reincarnation is an apprehension of a movement and the movement occurs in time. Without time, there is no reincarnation. Reincarnation is a reflection of time in this world.
~ Frederick Lenz
To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].
~ Gregory Bateson
Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.
~ Jay Griffiths
What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
~ John Green
A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.
~ Alex Lifeson
There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.
~ Anthony Stafford Beer
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.
~ Arthur Koestler
If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now
~ C. S. Lewis
Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.
~ Charles Baudelaire