Quotes About Philosophy

Darkness and light. Black and white. But which is death, and which is life?

Isn't it ironic that when you accept sadness is an inevitability of the human condition you feel happier?

souls should, by definition, also teach about "the metaphysical dimensions

She said calmly, "So I hear you are now an atheist. Is that true?" I nodded yes, and she smiled. She placed the package in my hands. "The man's name is Friedrich Nietzsche, and the book is called Twilight of the Idols," she said. "If you are going to be an atheist, be the best one out there. Bon appetit!

There are perhaps seven broad claims about the afterlife, with innumerable variations and combinations of belief.

The world is not prepared yet to understand the philosophy of Occult Sciences- let them assure themselves first of all that there are beings in an invisible world, whether Spirits' of the dead or Elementals; and that there are hidden powers in man, which are capable of making a God of him on earth." -H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891)

One claims that religious statements aren't referential at all, but purely expressive in nature; they communicate nothing but the emotional state of the person making them.

Virtue ethicists, taking their cue from Aristotle, define moral behavior as behavior that expresses virtues, which are principles that lead to excellence in human life. Some virtues derive from others, but there's no single principle from which all virtues unfold.

Garlic is the catsup of intellectuals.

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of artsAnd eloquence.

Others apart sat on a hill retir'd,In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd highOf Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate,Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

Socrates…Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'dWisest of men.

Deep vers'd in books and shallow in himself.

The first and wisest of them all professedTo know this only, that he nothing knew.

A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

Like most other things not apparently useful to man, it has few friends, and the blind question "Why was it made?' goes on and on, with never a guess that first of all it might have been made for itself.

Søren Kierkegaard was a philosopher of the human spirit. To come to understand what he is saying is to be challenged as a person, the challenge is in the form of an interrogation, the topic of which is very simple: you are an existing person, a human being; do you treat this fact with the seriousness and respect it demands? Or would you rather avoid the question?

It is better to have been, then not to have been, then to have been nothing at all." What truly is logic? Who decides reason? "It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found."-JOHN NASH JR.

Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.

France is going to endure, and I'll tell you [ISIS people who attacked Paris ] why. If you're in a war of culture and lifestyle with France, good fucking luck, because go ahead, bring your bankrupt ideology. They'll bring Jean-Paul Sartre, Edith Piaf, fine wine, Camus, Camembert, madeleines, macarons, Marcel Proust and the fucking croquembouche. You just brought a philosophy of rigorous self-abnegation to a pastry fight, my friend. You are fucked.

for no viewpoint has a vantage point (an advantage) from which it can experience all the traditions or gain true insight into the doctrine and practice of other peoples' faiths. No single perspective is ever capable of rendering judgment about other religions. A Mah?y?na philosophy of religions is a no-philosophy. It is a philosophy that empties philosophy.4

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.