Philosophy Quotes

I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite.

Wallace Stevens

Kitalah planet yang hidup itu, Sophie! Kitalah kapal besar yang berlayar mengelilingi matahari yang membakar alam raya. Tapi kita masing-masing adalah juga sebuah kapal bermuatan gen-gen yang melayari kehidupan. Jika kita sudah membawa muatan ini dengan selamat ke pelabuhan berikut --berarti hidup kita tidak sia-sia.

Jostein Gaarder

To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.

Stuart Sutherland

Aus Lügen, die wir glauben, werden Wahrheiten, mit denen wir leben.

Oliver Hassencamp

When I say that I am convinced of these things I speak with too much pride. Far off, like a perfect pearl, one can see the city of God. It is so wonderful that it seems as if a child could reach it in a summer's day. And so a child could. But with me and such as me it is different. One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow with leaden feet. It is so difficult to keep 'heights that the soul is competent to gain.' We think in eternity, but we move slowly through time; and how slowly time goes with us who lie in prison I need not tell again, nor of the weariness and despair that creep back into one's cell, and into the cell of one's heart, with such strange insistence that one has, as it were, to garnish and sweep one's house for their coming, as for an unwelcome guest, or a bitter master, or a slave whose slave it is one's chance or choice to be.

Oscar Wilde

You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. Now I just have topolish these off, and everything'll be OK. Life is a box of chocolates. I suppose you could call it a philosophy.

Haruki Murakami

We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.

Dirk Wittenborn

Love is almost never simple.

Dejan Stojanovic

..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

Yann Martel

Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too.

John Stuart Mill

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

Susan Neiman

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that musty old cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the sociable, and at the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another.

Henry David Thoreau

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

Carl Sagan

They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.

Kim Stanley Robinson

As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.

Rivera Sun

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

Thomas Jefferson

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.

Bill Bryson

The truth is helpless when up against perception

Zack W. Van