Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.
Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?
I cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless.
Philosophy is not to think deep, but simply speak life's basics that arise, aware and awaken people who are knowingly or unknowingly in the state of sleep.
Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.
No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization, a nation now struggling to find a new and valid philosophy of existence, will be propelled by the transcendental forces of the nuclear age.
Music will inevitably get you into Philosophy, and once you logically see that through, will end up getting you into Theology. Once you see that through, it will end up getting you to a simple place of being happy with yourself and everybody around you.
The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.
I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.
My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser.
Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?
To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of reason , this and nothing else is philosophy.
Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.
Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes upon the unknown processes of matter. It demands only an enquiring mind and senses alive to the facts almost everywhere presented in nature. And as it may be acquired without much difficulty, so it may be improved without much painful exertion.
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.