Quotes About Philosophy

Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

Može li netko ukrasti sre?u? Ili je i to još jedan unutarnji, pakleni ljudski trik?

Može li netko ukrasti sre?u? Ili je i to još jedan unutarnji, paklenski ljudski trik?

Marv glaubt an so etwas, und ich weiss, dass ich das nicht geringschaetzen sollte. Es ist, wie es ist.

Se puede robar la felicidad? ¿O es sólo otro infernal truco humano?

Ha dejado que la ame durante tres minutos. «¿Pueden tres minutos durar eternamente?», me pregunto pese a conocer la respuesta. «Probablemente no —contesto—. Pero tal vez duren lo suficiente.»

the dark, the light. What's the difference

Are you looking at a dead man now?

Veo su fealdad y su belleza y me pregunto cómo ambas pueden ser lo mismo.

Someone asked me if I really believed there was life after death. I replied: Do you really believe there is any life before death?

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

The Newtonian God—the God who made a clock-like universe, wound it, and withdrew—died a long time ago. This is what Nietzsche meant and this is the God who is being observed.

Acabaré la carta amb una cita que em va encantar quan la vaig llegir per primer cop, fa molts anys. És de Montesquieu, que va tenir una vida tan afortunada, o una filosofia de vida tan magnífica, com per poder dir: «

Acabaré la carta amb una cita que em va encantar quan la vaig llegir per primer cop, fa molts anys. És de Montesquieu, que va tenir una vida tan afortunada, o una filosofia de vida tan magnífica, com per poder dir: «Je n'ai jamais eu de chagrin qu'une heure de lecture n'ait dissipé» (No he tingut mai cap pena que una hora de lectura no hagi dissipat). Quina sort, la de Montesquieu!

I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Aristóteles definió el miedo como el dolor producido por la aparente presencia inminente de algo malo o negativo, acompañado de una sensación de impotencia para repelerlo.

It's been said that the entire philosophical foundation of Zen is contained in three small words: "Not always so." If you want to stop emotional eating (which means you'll eat only out of physical hunger, which means you'll eventually be the right weight for your body) you must become willing to apply those three words to your own beliefs. THE

So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw being asked and answered everywhere you looked, in every headline and haircut: if, at any moment, nothing might matter, then who said that nothing didn't matter already?

One recalls John Updike's argument: the only evidence for the existence of God is the collective human yearning that it should be so.

To be clear: an ideology is a belief system with an inadequate basis in reality; a religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever.

How do you think the world popped into existence? - I'd say wee we are at least five Albert Einsteins away from answering this question.

I long to burst out of the world of money and into - into what? Into the world of thought and fascination.

Death is an artist, not an intellectual.

ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.