Philosophical Quotes - Page 13

• What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Rational

  Philosophy of Right (1821)

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• A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

  Jeff Lindsay

  Men, Fire, Worry

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.75, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant.

  Joe Hill

  Exercise, Evil, Interesting

  Joe Hill (2010). “Horns”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

  Albert Camus

  Everyday, Important, Killing Yourself

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• Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Time, Men

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• Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fashion, Religious, Boys

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish." - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, Philosophy, Thinking

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• If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Inspirational, Trying, Transformation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The best things in life make you sweaty.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Purpose, Puberty

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• The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Zen Motorcycle Maintenance, Cycles

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM)". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking, Men, Zippers

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 13, 2015

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• I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Sheep, Enlightenment, Goats

  J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.22, Princeton University Press

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• If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical question...you may be wrong! It may be that you can't get an answer to that particular question by finding out more about the character of nature. But my interest in science is to simply find out about the world.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Character, Trying, Answers

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.115, Princeton University Press

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• With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?

  Pablo Neruda

  Stars, Sea, Rivers

  Pablo Neruda (2001). “Libro de Las Preguntas”, p.69, Copper Canyon Press

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• Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has a history that is more than a history of its formal evolution, our feelings must have a history too. Perhaps certain qualities of feeling that found expression in music can be recorded by being notated on paper, have become so remote that we can no longer inhabit them as feelings, can get a grasp of them only after long training in the history and philosophy of music, the philosophical history of music, the history of music as a history of the feeling soul.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Philosophy, Expression, Space

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• Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?

  Mary Balogh

  Happy Life, Thinking, Color White

  Mary Balogh (2009). “Then Comes Seduction”, p.230, Dell

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• These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write. But as soon as I asked myself the question, and tried to discover some subject to which I could impart a philosophical significance of infinite value, my mind would stop like a clock, my consciousness would be faced with a blank, I would feel either that I was wholly devoid of talent or perhaps that some malady of the brain was hindering its development.

  Marcel Proust

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.251, Modern Library

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• The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.

  Ted Dekker

  Thinking, Doors, Mind

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• Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

  Roald Dahl

  Important, You Choose

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• Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

  Bruce Lee

  Self, Differences, People

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• I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.

  Tom Robbins

  Believe, Men, Political

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• Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

  Philip Reeve

  Night, People, Way

  Philip Reeve (2011). “Fever Crumb”, p.168, Scholastic Inc.

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• In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today’s physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Spiritual, Mean, Hands

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• If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.

  E. Lockhart

  Lying, Trying, Want

  "The Boy Book". Book by E. Lockhart, 2006.

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• As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Girl, Fighting, Men

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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