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Philosophy Quotes
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
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"The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth."
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"The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual."
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"He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.'White to play and mate in two moves.'Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates."
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"I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom."
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"This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?"And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins."
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"It is not a case of finding the meaning for the moments, but giving the moments meaning."
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"What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements."
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"Is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?..."
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"A good life fears not life nor death."
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"Consciousness and free will are necessary in order for human beings to live meaningful lives by supplying agency to our intentions. The innate capacity for consciousness and directed free will plays a linchpin role in making human curiosity a viable concept. We would lack an ability to learn without an inquisitive mind and the ability to act. A premeditated act of human free will enables us to apply what we learn and make calculated adjustments when our plans need alteration. Human beings' cognitive processes and a liberal range of free will allows us to study the past for learning rubrics to employ in the present and cogitate upon a future course of action."
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"To you, I'm an atheist.To God, I'm the loyal opposition."
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"Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest."
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"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks."
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"From nothing comes everything."
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"The course of every intellectual if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough ends in the obvious from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred."
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"If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have glorified anything so hideous and repulsive as a cross stained with the blood of Jesus . . .An unopened grave would never have opened heaven."
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"Memorizing the Bible is most important. “Thinking God's thoughts” will take the place of worried, anxious concerns."
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"The ability to rejoice in any situation is a sign of spiritual maturity."
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"I am not here, I am somewhere else, my body is here but mind is in the skyflying with the clouds, spreading her wings of imagination to find the rainbow of happiness and joy."
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"No personality in history stands above Jesus Christ . . .He alone is able to meet every need of the human race."
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"In the essence of truth lies deceit."
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"I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law."
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"The ground is level at the foot of the cross."
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"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
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"Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal."
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"You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers."
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"Philosophy is the product of wonder."
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"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all."
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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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"Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand."
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"Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful."
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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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"Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us."
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"Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed."
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"Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism."
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"If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance."
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"I am not an Athenian nor a Greek but a citizen of the world."
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"All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy."
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"The Bible is God's book of promises, and, unlike the books of men, it does not change or get out of date."
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"Did he who made the lamb make thee?"
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"The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace."
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"The subjective experience of intense pain ("That's all I can take) corresponds exactly to one's subjective experience in relation to truth ("That's all I can take)."
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"The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask."
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"Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead."
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"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything."
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"You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of."
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"In making a clear distinction between desire (answer) and yearning (question), we inevitably end up back at personal purpose."
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"The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full."
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