Philosophy Quotes

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

As we already pointed out, 'special' means 'restricted to Inertial Frames of Reference', i.e. this theory cannot describe the Universe from an arbitrary reference frame. This restricted scope is not to be ignored, though not overemphasized either. ...Ironically, and precisely because of the great success of this simple version of Relativity Theory, most of its detractors have chosen to ignore (out of ignorance or malice -- you judge case by case) its philosophical foundation and restriction to Inertial Frames, so as to declare it invalid.

Felix Alba-Juez

If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.

Gilles Deleuze

L'homme est libre au moment qu'il veut l'être.

Voltaire

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

Rumi

Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken.

Henry Miller

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

Frank Herbert

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Kahlil Gibran

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.

Albert Camus

Dream on my Dear, and renounce temporal obligations.

Dead Can Dance

Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money? asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man in a striped shirt. I waited for the answer as I slowly walked past them. Why is it an either or question? the man in the striped shirt finally murmured philosophically under a sip of beer. They both stood there looking at each other in thought.

Daniel Amory

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

Peter Kreeft

There is nothing more dangerous to the shackles of complacency and the warden of fear than philosophy in action.

Steve Maraboli

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

G.K. Chesterton

Dove la moralit? è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Jos tämä on paras mahdollinen maailma, millaisia sitten ovatkaan muut?

Voltaire

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.

Friedrich Nietzsche