Quotes About Philosophy

I'm not living, I'm just killing time

I existed finally as the idea of temporal extension.

Life can be infernally complex,' he said.

Out of his zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from Seneca to Rousseau, he had confirmed into an unassailable conviction his earliest conscious impressions of the general insanity of his own species.

And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, he supposed, the sort of thing to be expected of a sex that all philosophy had taught him to regard as the maddest part of a mad species.

Would you rather have your child in a room with the best equipment in the world with an average teacher or an empty room with Socrates?

Socrates was the best teacher and they killed him!

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Who has no house now will not build him one.

In his view, an Indian peasant and an English monarch were equal as human beings. For Marx and Anderson, on the other hand, some races are superior, others inferior

Four hundred and fifty years earlier, the poet Kabir, whose profession as a spinner/weaver was in part emulated by Gandhi, had also spoken of Ram-Rahim.

The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.

said, "All life is…and cannot be judged good or bad.

When you have got a new idea, read Aristotle to find out what's wrong with it.

Mad Thomist's Syllogism: All wisdom is in the mind of the Angelic Doctor. I know the mind of the Angelic Doctor.

A Christian man ponders eternity for decades, only to find it's fifteen minutes long.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.