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Philosophy Quotes
"Life is but a sleep disturbed By dreaming."
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"Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state."
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"The universe was full of wonders. Some of them would drive you insane if you thought about them too long."
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"What good is power when you're too wise to use it?"
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"The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain."
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"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away."
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"Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding."
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"The essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn't romantic an took only two words to label: Shit. Happens."
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"Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist."
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"Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge, in turn, is again a manipulation of our desires. Our Will, during this inexorable revolution, serves as the force, increasing, decreasing, or at worst, maintaining the pace."
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"All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy."
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"Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices."
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"We live as One Man for contracting our infinite senses we behold multitude or expanding: we behold as one."
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"Simple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dispositions can close hearts and minds to such elevated awareness. It generally depends on whether you allow fear and violence to rule your actions or whether you give wisdom, courage, and compassion the authority to do so."
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"The sad fact is there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someone as a murder, the unjust taking of a loved being. And even the luckiest of us will encounter at least one murder in our own lives: our own. It is our fate. We all live a murder mystery of which we are the victim."
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"Being kind is not hereditary."
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"I moved out of my head office and went out of my mind."
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"The belief in death leads meditating about life; meanwhile, the belief in life leads you thinking about death."
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"There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance."
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"After a long analysis of Robson's suicide, we concluded that it could only be considered philosophical in an arithmetical sense of the term: he, being about to cause an increase of one in the human population, had decided it was his ethical duty to keep the planet's numbers constant."
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"Fractional Multiplicity' allows for a minute amount of our energy to be present in all places at all times."
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"Goodness by its nature is lovable and love finds it impossible not to pursue goodness."
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"But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."
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"Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is."
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"Time ... is the life of the soul."
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"He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense."
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"Light can devour the darkness but darkness cannot consume the light."
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"Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn't die when he should but when he can."
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"Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death."
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"When Jesus hung on the cross, a great unseen cosmic battle raged in the heavens-and in the end, Christ triumphed over all the forces of evil and death and hell."
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler."
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"There is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go..."
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"Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavour to do, he drowns--nicht wahr?. . . No! I tell you! The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands and feet in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up. So if you ask me--how to be?"
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"Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars."
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"My philosophical heart will not judge thee."
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"When Man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear. But not before."
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"When you give yourself, you receive more than you give."
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"Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue."
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"Nay, the same Solomon the king, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificent buildings, of shipping and navigation, of service and attendance, of fame and renown, and the like, yet he maketh no claim to any of those glories, but only to the glory of inquisition of truth; for so he saith expressly, "The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out;" as if, according to the innocent play of children, the Divine Majesty took delight to hide His works, to the end to have them found out; and as if kings could not obtain a greater honour than to be God's playfellows in that game."
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"Words and a book and a belief that the world is words..."
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"People of the world, today always say, "Look up to the sky, look up to the sky", but while they do that, they trample on butterflies with broken wings and they step on ladybugs with broken legs. "Look up to the sky and be like God", they say; but nay, it is the nature of the mortal to cast his gaze upward, while it is the nature of the gods in the sky to cast their gaze downwards. When you are below, the way to look is up. When you are up, the way to look is down."
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"Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like."
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"A good life fears not life nor death."
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"I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you. This is where I disagree with the philosophers. They talk about passionate things but there is no passion in them. Never talk happiness with a philosopher."
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"Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known."
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"Evil ethicists are the holocaust of humanity; if philosophy can be the instant sunlight to their endless vampirism, it will save more lives than all the doctors who have ever lived."
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"It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it."
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