Quotes on Philosophical

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world.

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. ... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the universe -- I think that word would be paradox. That's true at the subatomic level, right through sociological, psychological, philosophical levels on up to cosmic levels.

O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.