Quotes About Philosophy

In Buddhist writings, mention is often made of "the abyss of birth." An abyss indeed, a gulf into which we do not fall but from which, instead, we emerge, to our universal chagrin.

To suffer is the great modality of taking the world seriously.

Bach, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Dostoievski ÅŸi Nietzsche sunt singurul argument împotriva monoteismului.

The Real gives me asthma.

Though we may prefer ourselves to the universe, we nonetheless loathe ourselves much more than we suspect. If the wise man is so rare a phenomenon, it is because he seems unshaken by the aversion which, like all beings, he must feel for himself.

We had nothing to say to one another, and while I was manufacturing my phrases I felt that earth was falling through space and that I was falling with it at a speed that made me dizzy.

You are done for — a living dead man — not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Ce s? mai cauÅ£i printre muritori când tu cânÅ£i din org? ÅŸi ei din fluier?

The initial revelation of any monastery: everything is nothing. Thus begin all mysticisms. It is less than one step from nothing to God, for God is the positive expression of nothingness.

It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even "realities"; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a "solitary elephant.

Cu fiecare zi sîntem mai singuri. Ce grea si ce usoara trebuie sa fie ultima!

Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.

DiferenÅ£a dintre mine ÅŸi ceilalÅ£i oameni: eu am murit de nenum?rate ori, pe când ei n-au murit niciodat?.

An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

There are no solutions, only cowardice masquerading as such.

The sphere of consciousness shrinks in action; no one who acts can lay claim to the universal, for to act is to cling to the properties of being at the expense of being itself, to a form of reality to reality's detriment.

That there should be a reality hidden behind appearances is, after all, quite possible; that language might render such a thing would be an absurd hope.

Am tr?it întotdeauna cu conÅŸtiinÅ£a neputinÅ£ei de a tr?i. Åži ceea ce mi-a f?cut existenÅ£a suportabil? e curiozitatea de a vedea cum aveam s? trec de la un minut, de la o zi, de la un an la altul.

The pessimist has to invent new reasons to exist every day: he is a victim of the "meaning" of life.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

Prostia este o suferinta nedureroasa a inteligentei.

Unlike Job, I have not cursed the day I was born; all the other days, on the contrary, I have covered with my anathemas. …

During the long nights in the caves, how many Hamlets must have murmured their endless monologues—for it is likely that the apogee of metaphysical torment is to be located well before that universal insipidity which followed the advent of Philosophy.

De dou? mii de ani Iisus se r?zbun? pe noi pentru c? nu a murit pe o canapea.