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Quotes tagged ‘Philosophy’
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
All you have is a brain. And the goal of philosophy is for you to use your brain to come up with the answers that make the most sense to you.
Philosophy becomes tortured thinking. Thinking that devours itself—and continues intact and even flourishes, in spite (or perhaps because) of these repeated acts of self-cannibalism.
Kant's great discovery—but one that he never admitted to—was that apodictic reason is incompatible with knowledge. Such reason must be 'transcendental'. This is a word that has been propagated with enthusiasm, but only because Kant simultaneously provided a method of misreading it. To be transcenden…
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
There are no conditions to fulfill. There is nothing to be done, nothing to be given up. Just look and remember, whatever you perceive is not you, nor yours. It is there in the field of consciousness, but you are not the field and its contents, not even the knower of the field. It is your idea that…
Trump or no Trump, there is an urgent need for some kind of public education program surrounding truth. Few people leaving school or college have been formally instructed in logic, and there is shockingly little public understanding of how knowledge is created.
Learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die.
— Seneca, amazon.com
Believe me, it is the sign of a great man, and one who is above human error, not to allow his time to be frittered away: he has the longest possible life simply because whatever time was available he devoted entirely to himself.
— Seneca, amazon.com
People are delighted to accept pensions and gratuities, for which they hire out their labour or their support or their services. But nobody works out the value of time: men use it lavishly as if it cost nothing. But if death threatens these same people, you will see them praying to their doctors; if…
— Seneca, amazon.com
So you must match time’s swiftness with your speed in using it, and you must drink quickly as though from a rapid stream that will not always flow.
— Seneca, amazon.com
All things that are still to come lie in uncertainty; live straightway!
— Seneca, amazon.com
And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long – he has existed long.
— Seneca, amazon.com
Can anything be more idiotic than certain people who boast of their foresight? They keep themselves officiously preoccupied in order to improve their lives; they spend their lives in organizing their lives. They direct their purposes with an eye to a distant future. But putting things off is the big…
— Seneca, amazon.com
As far as I am concerned, I know that I have lost not wealth but distractions. The body’s needs are few: it wants to be free from cold, to banish hunger and thirst with nourishment; if we long for anything more we are exerting ourselves to serve our vices, not our needs.
— Seneca, amazon.com
The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.
— Seneca, amazon.com