Quotes About Philosophy

man is not a rational animal. He may have invented many social philosophies, but he remains incurably biological.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

The Medusa and the Snail,

Music is the hidden arithmetic of the soul, which does not know that it deals with numbers. (Paraphrasing Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz)

You never know anything until you've proved it right." "Nonsense. You can't order life mathematically," retorted the Judge. "Most of the time you 'know' things without factual evidence." "I'm Coleridge's 'thought-benighted skeptic,'" said Ellery unhappily. "I question everything. Sometimes I even question the results of my own thinking. My mental life is very involved.

If it pains you to discover that a Nice Man can be a crumbum, Tom, it's life you've got to object to, not Percy in particular.

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

If you believe in forever, then life is just a one-night stand.

La tristeza es un derecho humano? Si no es debería serlo.

Wisdom is a tree of slow growth; the rings around its trunk are earthly lives, and the grooves between are the periods between lives. Who grieves that an acorn is slow in becoming an oak?

Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?

Don't start me talking I could talk all night My mind goes sleepwalking While I'm putting the world to right.

Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions?" A poor little schoolboy who said "we don't need no lessons?

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

6] Then the ambassador asked him, "Can you make it true that you yourself are insane?" The provider of arguments said, "I could, but I don't want to. Who isn't insane?" Then people asked the provider of arguments to say from the heart whether he was joking or whether he really believed that there is no truth except what people make out to be true. He replied, "That is what I believe, I swear." Afterward

We have two abilities that make up our life, one called will and the other understanding. They are distinguishable, but they are created to be one. When they are one, they are called the mind; so they are the human mind and it is there that all the life within us is truly to be found.

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

Under each formula lies a corpse.

Man is a robot with defects.

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What's your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.