Quotes About Philosophy

This is the way I think the world will end—with general giggling by all the witty heads, who think it is a joke.' Kierkegaard.

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

he tried another poem and he called it Absolutely Nothing because that's what it was really all about

The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

So if animals aren't our friends, then what are they? The answer can be summed up between two buns.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, I hope it lands on a philosophy professor.

The next sentence is false. The previous sentence is true. I'll wait while your heads explode.

And now a surprise: Beethoven was deeply inspired by his reading of the Bhagavad Gita.

Others may do as they please, but as for me,' he concluded ferociously, 'I shall never disclose to anybody that an acrobat, a trained bear of the magazines, a juggler of comic paragraphs, is not a priceless pearl of art and philosophy.

LCVI If I should cast off this tattered coat, And go free into the mighty sky; If I should find nothing there But a bast blue, Echoless, ignorant,- What then?

nothing is so much to be regretted as the universe.

Fill in the blanks, you'd have a novel; keep it short and it's a play by Beckett.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

You should give up.' 'Why?' 'For one thing, you'll live longer.' 'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children.

My real dissatisfaction is with my dissatisfaction. How dare I be so discontent? How dare I? Or being discontent why cannot I shut up about it?

It is enough to say that the Greeks thought it was Chaos who, with a massive heave, or a great shrug, or hiccup, vomit or cough, began the long chain of creation that has ended with pelicans and penicillin and toadstools and toads, sea-lions, seals, lions, human beings and daffodils and murder and art and love and confusion and death and madness and biscuits.

You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept that we have no will.

Am I the same person i was fifty years ago? Every molecule and cell of my body has been replaced many times over.

Of course the Greeks were not the only people to weave a tapestry of legends and lore out of the puzzling fabric of existence.

If days be good, they shall pass, which is a lowering thought. If they be bad, they shall pass, which is cheering.

With hope, Nietzsche argued, we are foolish enough to believe there is a point to existence, an end and a promise.

Bij onze geboorte ligt ons lot al vast, en niemand heeft ooit het zijne kunnen ontlopen (Hektor)

These are the kind of wrong thoughts people have who are spending too much time alone. They start unpacking vast cosmic bullshit from gum wrappers, and then they chew it up, blow a bubble, ride that bubble up into some even stupider place.