Quotes About Philosophy

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

Did it talk about the afterlife?' George said eagerly. His eyes shone bright behind his spectacles. 'That's the big one. That's what everyone wants. What happens after death. Immortality... The fate of the human soul...' I took a deep breath. 'It said you were fat.

According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking.

Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

For, what though his Head be empty, provided his Common place-Book be full...

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No." "Then why do we come here?" He sucked thoughtfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me, draping me under his musty woolen prayer shawl, and then shrugged. "I've been wrong before," he said.

top up position down The fact that I suspect I'm an asshole means I probably am not, because a real asshole doesn't think he's an asshole, does he? Therefore, by realizing that I'm an asshole, I am in fact negating that very realization, am I not? Descartes's Asshole Axiom: I think I am; therefor I'm not one.

The British philosopher and novelist Raymond Tallis, writing in the New Scientist (January 2010), commented on how the 'material world, far from being the noisy, colourful, smelly place we live in, is colourless, silent, full of odourless molecules, atoms, particles, whose nature and behaviour is best described mathematically'.

Je suis devenu celui que j'avais si peur de devenir. Un sceptique. Un agnostique - même pas assez croyant pour être athée. Un homme qui pense que le contraire de la vérité n'est pas le mensonge, mais la certitude. Et le pire, du point de vue de celui que j'ai été, c'est que je m'en porte plutôt bien. (p. 141)

chi siamo, che cosa fa sì che siamo noi e nessun altro.

la extinción del deseo no es sólo el ideal de santurrones puritanos, sino de personas que han reflexionado mucho sobre la condición humana, como los budistas.

rappresenta il vertice della saggezza e non basta una vita a farsene permeare, ad assimilarla, ad interiorizzarla in modo che cessi di essere un'idea e plasmi invece il nostro modo di vedere e di agire in ogni situazione

The Mess went vilely tonight. Sister adds up on her fingers, and that's fatal, so all the numbers were out, and the chef sent in forty-five meats instead of fifty-one. I blushed with horror and responsibility, standing there watching six hungry men pretending to be philosophers. The sergeant wolfed the cheese too. He got it out from under my very eyes while I was clearing the tables and ate it, standing up to it in the pantry with his back to me when I went in to fetch a tray.

Crede che in fin dei conti tutti siano buoni e degni d'attenzione, e a me fa sorridere e mi riempie anche di una gran dolcezza, e un po' mi fa invidia, nella sua casa magica nel bosco, ché vuole bene a tutti, e io, invece, Taxi Driver ed esistenzialista.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Philosophical intelligence is never so truthful, pure, and precise as when it starts from oppression and does not have any privileges to defend, because it has none at all.

Por ello, se propone reformular una ética, coherente dentro de la tradición filosófica islámica, que critique a la Modernidad europea, como expresión de la civilización occidental2.

una moral moderna propia desde fines del siglo XV, comenzando por Ginés de Sepúlveda, filósofo moralista español del siglo XVI, pasando a un Hobbes en el siglo XVII, un Kant en el XVIII, un Nietzsche en el XIX o F. von Hayek en el siglo XX (este último, el formulador vienés del neoliberalismo que justifica la colonialidad, el capitalismo y el liberalismo que se imponen a las culturas periféricas).

La felicidad, a semejanza del arte, cuanto más se calcula menos se logra

La vida no es más que un relámpago entre dos noches infinitas

No afirmaba Lessingen en su «Parábola» que la felicidad no reside en el goce pleno, sino en un progreso perpetuo hacia nuevos deleites?