Quotes about Philosophy
You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
- Confucius
I was not born with wisdom. I love the ancient teachings and have worked hard to attain to their level.
- Confucius
Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?
- Cormac McCarthy
You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.
- Cormac McCarthy
Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
- Cormac McCarthy
He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.
- Cormac McCarthy
Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.
- Cormac McCarthy
How can you believe in heaven if you don't believe in hell?
- Cormac McCarthy
The elevation of grief to a status transcending that which it sorrows.
- Cormac McCarthy
The judge is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
- Cormac McCarthy
No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later.
- Cormac McCarthy
I think what is being pointed out is that human consciousness and reality are not the same thing.
- Cormac McCarthy