Quotes About Wisdom

We know not through our intellect but through our Experience

Everything is science and everything is philosophy.

There is no universal clock, but local histories take form beneath our eyes, and begin to regulate themselves, and haltingly are linked to one another and demand to live, and confirm the powerful in the wisdom which the immensity of the risks and the consciousness of their own disorder had given them. The world is more present to itself in all its parts than it ever was.

I do not believe that what one gives to the sciences is taken from philosophy.

We only know what we are after we have lost it...Such is true nothingness, which is not nichtiges Nicht but Sein.

My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.

Heraclitus says that Nature is a child at play; it gives meaning, but in the manner of a child who is playing, and this meaning is never total.

Ambiguity cannot be resolved, but it can be understood as ultimate.

We would not know even what the false is, if there were not times when we had distinguished it from the true...If we are to be able to speak of falsity, we do have to have experiences of truth.

Perhaps there are never any masters except after the fact and from afar.

I'm not afraid of death.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

Coco Chanel famously said that "after forty nobody is young, but one can be irresistible at any age.

Since time immemorial any woman with half a brain has known that in the pursuit of romance she must hide it

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

One is taught to refrain from irony, because mankind does tend to take it literally. In the hearing of the gods, who hear all, it is conversely unsage to make a simple and direct statement. So what is one to do? The dilema needs a whole volume to itself.

You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the root of all the evil that is in the world

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