Quotes About Philosophy

The past, the future: - two eternities!

Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.

And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman.

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.

What should I do if my problems aren't all solved by the time I die?

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)

Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.

Space and time are figments of you're imagination, unless the guy you're flying next to won't shut up.

You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.

Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!

I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.

Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.

Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways.

Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.

I wasn't asking anything about God, Jonah complained. Yeah, you kind of were, JB said. If there is fate, who else would control it?

All paths lead somewhere, is an old kender adage. Combine this with, Every path is the right path except when it's the left fork, and that pretty much sums up kender philosophy.

Il faudrait prévenir les gens de ces choses-là. Leur apprendre que l'immortalité est mortelle, qu'elle peut mourir, que c'est arrivé, que cela arrive encore.

You ask how loving can happen—the emotion of loving. She answers: Perhaps a sudden lapse in the logic of the universe.