Quotes About Philosophy

Gold is the spiritual basis of existing society.

Another very popular form of magic, now and for many centuries to follow, was the whole range of alchemy which had attached itself to the more purely mystical philosophy of early Daoism. The Way of the Daoists had been a method of transcending life, of getting in touch with some form of eternity beyond life. Among their humdrum successors this ideal often became lost in the more common quest for eternal life itself...

Quiero seguir sintiendo a toda costa que algún día he de morir. De otro modo, no sentiría que estoy viviendo. Por eso, mi vida es así.

We'd given up thinking about things as though we understood them, or even as though we could, and committed to living our days like a continuous length of thread we were each spinning.

Certo, osserviamo tutti il mondo da dentro una scatola, e se fossimo dentro a un'altra la penseremmo diversamente. Ma visto che è in questa che siamo, possiamo solo continuare a vivere considerandola la migliore in assoluto, pur dubitandone di tanto in tanto.

Voglio assolutamente continuare a sentire che un giorno morirò. Altrimenti non mi accorgo che vivo. Per questo è così la mia vita.

beyond that, I couldn't say. There's no point thinking about the future. That

Quando vedono troppe cose, gli esseri umani diventano stranamente tristi.

I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.

To take things as they be -- Thet's my philosophy. No use to holler, mope, or cuss -- If they was changed they might be wuss.

The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.

For Ayn had built up a comprehensive systematic philosophy, which she calls Objectivism, and which, once you accept its first premises, is the most closely reasoned, rigorously logical and consistently interlocking world view and explanation since the great synthesis of Thomas Aquinas.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Ask anyone what she means when she says 'God' and chances are that you will learn a lot more about that person than you will learn about God.

if God is all-powerful and God is all-good, then why do terrible things happen to good people?

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse--what I am is beyond my control--for the philosophy of responsibility.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

You believe you have no soul. That's a disorganized thought in my world. -Sarah Lange to Dr. David Sutton

Old Hamlet asks, "What is this quintessence of dust?" Dust it's a dry word, with Saharas of space between each letter.

Life is hard and then we die!

Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

I shop therefore I am.

Yes, I suppose one feels that life is only tolerable if one takes a romantic view of it,' Leonora agreed.