Quotes About Philosophy

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

Soren Kierkegaard

The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair.

Faith begins precisely where thinking leaves off

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.

The misfortune of our time is just this, that it has become simply nothing else but 'time', the temporal, which is impatient of hearing anything about eternity.

Spiritually, a man's thoughts must be the building in which he lives, otherwise it's wrong.

I see it perfectly; there are two possible situations - once can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more intense the despair.

This is the profound secret of innocence, that at the same time it is dread.

If man were a beast or an angel, he would not be able to be in anxiety. Since he is both beast and angel, he can be in anxiety, and the greater the anxiety, the greater the man.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. And if one thinks over that proposition it becomes more and more evident that life can never really be understood in time because at no particular moment can I find the necessary resting-place from which to understand it.

The good is by virtue my willing it. Otherwise it has no existence.

Anxiety may be the dizziness of freedom.

Upravo loša savest može u?initi život zanimljivim.

How empty life is and without meaning. - We bury a man, we follow him to the grave, we throw three spades of earth on him, we ride out in a coach, we ride home in a coach, we take comfort in the thought that a long life awaits us. But how long is threescore years and ten? Why not finish it at once?

También yo he sentido la inclinación a obligarme, casi de una manera demoníaca, a ser más fuerte de lo que en realidad soy.

The only advantage of knowledge is that it can justify suffering.

Knowledge's surest logic is the lack of knowledge.