Quotes about Philosophy

What's beauty if it's not, in the end, true? Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Wir wissen eben nicht, was einer tun sollte, wir haben nicht mehr wir früher Antworten parat; wir wursteln uns bloß weiter durch und versuchen, nicht nachzudenken.

If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.

In game play it was always my philosophy that patience would win out. By that, I meant patience to follow our game plan. If we believed in it, we would wear the opposition down and would eventually get to them. If we broke away from our style, however, and played their style, we would be in trouble. And if we let our emotions, rather than our reason, command the game we would not function effectively.

Some people today may think these are naive or kind of corny. But think a moment about what they mean and who you become if you abide by them. That isn't naive. You don't become corny.

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist!

Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and the temporal.

There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes

There is not love of life without despair about life.