Quotes About Philosophy

The great begins great, sustains itself only through the free recurrence of greatness, and if it is great, also comes to an end in greatness. ... Only the everyday understanding and small man imagine the great must ensure forever, a duration he then goes on to equate with the eternal.

The ontology of life is accomplished by way of a privative Interpretation; it determines what must be the case if there can be anything like mere-aliveness [Nur-noch-leben].

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El tiempo deberá ser sacado a la luz y deberá ser concebido genuinamente como el horizonte de toda comprensión del ser y de todo modo de interpretarlo (pag. 28)

Everything has always already been said. And yet this same possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.

Man is the shepherd of Being.

If I was summoned by faith, I'd close down my workshop ... Philosophy deals only with that thought which man can procure from his own means: as soon as it is summoned by Revelation, philosophy ceases.

Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.

What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis.

At age fifteen, Martin entered Morehouse College in an accelerated program during World War II. As the U.S. pledged to fight fascism, racism, anti-Semitism, and colonialism, King was profoundly influenced through courses in sociology, history, philosophy, literature, and religion.

Nietzsche's view of Christian love as a form of resentment and revenge of the powerless and impotent toward the powerful and the strong led King briefly to "despair of the power of love in solving social problems.

The good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism

Whatever measure of influence I had as a result of the importance which the world attaches to the Nobel Peace Prize would have to be used to bring the philosophy of nonviolence to all the world's people who grapple with the age-old problem of racial injustice.

My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference.

They say to us that we must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderer.

It doesn't have to exist in reality as long as people give it a kind of reality by talking and writing and arguing about it.

Whoever said 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts' probably lost.

i have the brain the size of a planet and you want to talk to me about life

Rather, think of etiquette as a philosophy of living and enjoying life with grace, compassion, and respect for others.

Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?

He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more... well, pleasant.

But he was well aware that the future could never be relied upon to be an improvement upon the present. The future did not exist. Only the present did.

But really there was no hurry. It is time to love, he had said downstairs. And time was not always just one second long or even one minute or one hour. Those were artificial divisions, imposed by humankind. Time was infinite. And it was time to love... ...Even infinity had an end. They had loved. And somehow having loved was quite as beautiful as loving. For of course there was no real end to it. Infinity might have an end, but love did not.

Le nostre idee devono essere grandiose quanto la natura, se devono interpretare la natura stessa.