Quotes About Philosophy

The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.

How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

Time is the image of eternity.

Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.

If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity?

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

Infinity: Time on an ego trip.

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

The concept of time shuts off eternity.

Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).

There have always been people during periods of history that thought that we could get along with the enemy if only we would reach out. Peace in our time is a philosophy.

The speed of time is 1 hour per hour, no matter what else is going on in the universe.

There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing.

A long time ago, Descartes sad, "I think, therefore I am." But if you are not thinking, what?

Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.

This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.