Quotes About Philosophy

I know everything must be a lie, but I believe it anyway.

He's a typical existentialist. And that's a contradiction in terms if ever there was one.

How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?

I worked it out sitting here. Maybe that's the thing we need to understand, Alice. That some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them." There was a silence before he spoke again. "Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.

Maybe that's the thing we need to understand, Alice. That some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them." There was a silence before he spoke again. "Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.

Go out onto the deck and stare at the sky for ten minutes, and remind yourself that ultimately ours is a meaningless and futile existence and that our little planet will probably be swallowed by a black hole, so none of this will have any point anyway.

All beauty, according to Lady Katchatka, had its origins in pain.

We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer, and it doesn't hurt more or less if God caused it or could stop it, at least for me. I am definitely of the school that believes God has bigger stuff to worry about than me.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.

A day older than yesterday, a day younger than tomorrow. Beyond that, I don't think much about it.

One grandparent saving another, she'd said, or some version of that. What was it Mark Twain had said about age? Something like "Age is an issue of mind over matter," Brixton recalled. "If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.

The elevation of unity as the highest social value is a core tenet of fascism and all leftist ideologies.

As Mussolini said in an interview in 1932, "It is faith that moves mountains, not reason. Reason is a tool, but it can never be the motive force of the crowd.

When God "died" in the 19th century, "social-ism" took the form of materialist scientism (hence the philosopher Eric Voegelin's observation that under Marxism, "Christ the Redeemer is replaced by the steam engine as the promise of the realm to come"). It's worth recalling that both Marx and Engels came to their socialism via their atheism, not the other way around.

Sartre's remark: "Tomorrow, after my death, certain people may decide to establish fascism, and the others may be cowardly or miserable enough to let them get away with it. At that moment, fascism will be the truth of man, and so much the worse for us. In reality, things will be as much as man has decided they are."1

Pasaulis ima visk? per rimtai. Pasauly žmon?s žudos d?l id?j?. Id?jos pasidar? per rimtos.

pranc?zai klydo sakydami kad kuo daugiau viskas kei?ias tuo daugiau viskas pasilieka kaip buv? nes iš ties? niekas nepasilieka kaip buv?.

Ir nieko n?ra pastovaus - kaip m?s? širdys - ir viskas, kas tariam stovi ant tvirto pagrindo, yra tiek tikra, kiek m?nulis šulin?. Ir viskas plaukia ir siubuoja visatoje, kaip japon? nameliai. Toks yra mano sielos pasaulis - ir jis n?ra j?s?.

Essentially I'm a pantheist-agnostic. I worship many deities with equal amounts of confusion.

The doctrine of the mean (the epithet 'golden' is un-Aristotelian) regularly occurs in later writers as a piece of moral advice -- a recipe or rule reminding us to 'observe the mean', to be moderate in all things and to avoid excess and deciciency. (If the doctrine urges us not to drink too much wine, it equally urges us not to drink too little -- but that is something which the moralizers usually find it prudent to ignore.)

O, you heavenly charmers, What things you make of us! For what we lack We laugh, for what we have are sorry, still Are children in some kind. Let us be thankful For that which is, and with you leave dispute That are above our question. Let's go off, And bear us like the time.

For science the great miracle to be explained is the physical universe. For esoteric philosophy the greater miracle is human consciousness.