Quotes about Philosophy

It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

The English philosopher and geometer, Keith Critchlow, brings his own light to the same point: "The human mind takes apart with its analytic habits of reasoning but the human heart puts things together because it loves them . . ."18

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

be.—Yes he thought Between grief and nothing I will take grief.

It's all now you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.

Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Dajem ti sat, ne da se prise?aš vremena, ve? da bi ga ponekad mogao na trenutak zaboraviti, da ne izgubiš dah pokušavaju?i da ga osvojiš. Jer bitke se nikad ne dobijaju. ?ak se i ne biju. Bojno polje samo otkriva ?oveku njegovu ludost i o?ajanje, a pobeda je uvek samo iluzija filozofa i glupaka... Moglo bi se pomisliti da ?e se nesre?a jednog dana umoriti, ali onda samo vreme postaje naša nesre?a.