"philosophy"タグの名言

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

Who is John Galt?

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion; - The Hollow Men

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible