It Philosophy Quotes
Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study - which is why most of what gets done is so impoverished.
The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.
Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.
My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.
I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that, like life, thinking is not linear.
My interest in philosophy began as early as eight years old - I started thinking about those kinds of heavy questions about life and humanity.
When the truths of love are planted firm, they won't be hard to find. And words of love I speak to you will echo in your mind.
My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any time.
Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.
There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time.
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.
Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.
You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.
The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.
As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.
You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.
You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.
The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.
Moments are the elements of profit
It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.
Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.
Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.
Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.
