Quotes about Philosophy
You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.
- Paulo Coelho
That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
- Paulo Coelho
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.
- Paulo Coelho
If someone comes to you with a gift, and you do not accept it, who does the gift belong to? - asked the Samurai.
- Paulo Coelho
Why am I unhappy? The question carries with it the virus that will destroy everything.
- Paulo Coelho
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
- Edmund Burke
I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
- Samuel Johnson
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
- Aristotle
True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
- Michelangelo
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
- Aristotle
Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
- Samuel Beckett
Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.
- Marina Abramovic