Quotes About Philosophy

Death very much on my mind tonight, future reader. Can it be true? That I will die? That Pam, kids will die? Is awful. Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel Do not like.

None of that ever was, he said. And it never will be.

Based on my experience of life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, if it's not broke, don't fix it. And I would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse.

Today, at the stupa, it occurs to me that this low-level ambient fear constitutes a decent working definition of the human: A human being is someone who, having lived awhile, becomes terrified and, having become terrified, deeply craves an end to the fear.

think, therefore I am wrong

The story of life is the story of the same basic mind readdressing the same problems in the same already discredited ways.

I am an intellectual. This does not mean I am intelligent, but that ideas are more important to me than people.

Anyone with a sense of humor can see that life is a joke, not a tragedy.

Credo quia absurdum

The symmetries of immanence are cruel.

George Steiner

George Steiner

qué someterse a las pruebas de la vida cuando no hay escapatoria a la muerte? La

Existimos para la oscuridad». ¿Esto

Only language knows no conceptual, no projective finality.

any coherent understanding of what language is and how language performs, . . . any coherent account of the capacity of human speech to communicate meaning and feeling is . . . underwritten by the assumption of God's presence.

Las narraciones son ensayos para la muerte.

Si no se puede enseñar el amor, ¿se puede enseñar el odio?

Confucian rigour swept away the 'magical nonsense 'and Taoist liturgies of alchemical arts. None the less ,' if we now have powder metallurgy , beryllium alloys and liquid oxygen steel', this is owning to the Wizards ,not to the censorious apostles of common sense.

Tot ceea ce putem spune despre limb?, ca ÅŸi despre moarte este, într- un anumit sens, un adev?r inaccesibil.

Schopenhauer asegura que cuando nuestro universo se extinga, la música permanecerá. Para

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? Epicurus

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. John Adams, U.S. President

How long must a man lie dead," he recited, puzzled by the words that came out of him. "Forever is too long. There must be mercy somewhere.