Quotes About Philosophy

But though it is unreal, it is not meaningless.

The idea is always bigger than the man'.

I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

Did not the statement, You do not exist, contain a logical absurdity?

Nothing exists except through human consciousness.

Though it is unreal it is not meaningless

That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness and for the bulk of mankind happiness was better.

The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness.

Mientras los humanos sigan siendo humanos, la vida y la muerte seran la misma cosa

Vous ne possédez rien, en dehors des quelques centimètres cubes de votre crâne.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?

Pacifism is a tenable position, provided that you are prepared to live with the consequences.

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor, you can still keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, Im a free man in here- he tapped his forehead- and you're all right

A slave, Marcus Cato said, should be working when he is not sleeping. It does not matter whether his work is needed or not, he must work, because work in itself is good—for slaves, at least. This sentiment still survives, and it has piled up mountains of useless drudgery.

Lo importante no es mantenerse vivo, sino mantenerse humano

Tudo acontece na mente. O que quer que aconteça em todas as mentes, acontece de fato.

We say that a man's dead when his heart stops and not before. It seems a bit arbitrary. After all, parts of your body don't stop working-hair goes on growing for years, for instance. Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible. You will never have anything to sustain you except the idea.

The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a "real" world where "real" things happened. But how could there be such a world? What knowledge have we of anything, save through our own minds? All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.

You are thinking.'' he said. ''that my face is old and tired. You are thinking that I talk of power, and yet I am not even able to prevent the decay of my own body. Can you not understand, Winston, that the individual is only a cell? The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism.

Do you believe in God, Winston?" "No." "Then what is it, this principle that will defeat us?" "I don't know. The spirit of Man.

The Brotherhood cannot be wiped out because it is not an organisation in the ordinary sense. Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.

Like all man who have lived much alone, he adjusted himself better to ideas than to people.

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him)