Quotes About Philosophy

There is nothing dreadful in life for the man who has truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living.

the universe as a whole is eternal, although individual worlds within the system are born and die; and if the universe is eternal it must be self-sustaining and require no divine assistance for its maintenance.

Epicureanism was devised specifically as a "salvation" philosophy, a positive way of escape from a most unpleasant social and political environment. So it became imperative, in a positive sense, for the Epicureans to imitate the perfect serenity and self-sufficiency of their own idealized gods, who were actually a psychological projection of the kind of beings they themselves wanted to be.

If man is nothing but a material mechanism and part of the world mechanism, then his choices of good and evil are mechanically determined, and he cannot be said to be an autonomous and responsible ethical being. Thus if materialism is to save moral responsibility and at the same time save determinism, it must represent man as partially determined (in his organic functions) and partially free (in his ethical capacity).

N.F.F.N.S.N.C. Non Fui; Fui; Non Sum; Non Curo. "I was not, I was, I am not, I care not." It's a Latin saying found on Roman grave markers. It means I wasn't bothered about not existing before I existed and I'm not bothered about not existing now that I don't exist.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death, we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

Nature's wealth is limited and easy to acquire; but the wealth of vain fancies recedes to an infinite distance.

O homem justo é o mais livre da angústia; o injusto o mais cheio de angústia.

a mente, apreendendo em pensamento qual é o fim e o limite do corpo, e banindo os terrores do futuro, proporciona uma vida completa e perfeita, e já não tem necessidade de tempo ilimitado.

Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo

Per noi è molto importante la capacità di dire no ai desideri, non perché dobbiamo sempre accontentarci di poco, ma perché quando non abbiamo molto possiamo comunque apprezzare il poco che abbiamo.

Meglio essere saggi e sfortunati che sciocchi e molto fortunati. È preferibile che un'azione pianificata con giudizio fallisca piuttosto che qualcosa preparato senza ragionarci su venga premiato dalla sorte.

La morte, il più terribile dei mali, non è niente. Quando ci siamo noi la morte non c'è, e quando c'è lei noi non siamo più.

It's a great thing learning how to die.

Practice these and the related percepts day and night and you will live as a god among men.

Offensichtlich existiert jetzt Etwas, und Etwas entstand nie aus Nichts.

Nichts genügt dem, für den genug zu wenig ist.

All Cretans are liars.

It is not simply in wonder but in love that philosophy begins.

But it was useless to try to explain him in terms of Good and Evil. They were no more than baroque abstractions. Good Business and Bad Business were the elements of the new theology. Dimitrios was not evil. He was logical and consistent; as logical and consistent in the European jungle as the poison gas called Lewisite and the shattered bodies of children killed in the bombardment of an open town.

The logic of Michelangelo's David, Beethoven's quartets and Einstein's physics had been replaced by that of the Stock Exchange Year Book and Hitler's Mein Kampf.

I have a car but it's not important.

Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic.

Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.