Quotes about Philosophy

She said the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience

The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.

life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Your projections of logic onto all affairs is unnatural, but suffered to continue for its usefulness.

And he wondered: What is the now?

What was it St. Augustine said? she asked herself. "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance." Yes—I am meeting more resistance lately.

Moneo is trapped. He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Know thyself? Dasein sensed then he couldn't know himself without dying. Death was the background against which life could know itself.

Let us not bandy philosophical nonsense. Every question can be boiled down to the one: 'Why is there anything?' Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?

I don't believe in ghosts or ESP or elves... or God. But I am spiritual in the sense that I get a lump in my throat when I listen to Vaughan Williams.

The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.