Tag: philosophy

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle....

Il y a les sachants et les savants: c’est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c’est la philosophie qui fait les autres. La philosophie ne s’apprend pas; la philosophie est la réunion des sciences acquises au génie qui les applique....

It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved… [A]ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical....

If you know how to be happy with the wonders of life that are already there for you to enjoy, you don’t need to stress your mind and your body by striving harder and harder, and you don’t need to stress...

This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief –like a whisper of wind–when we are all and finally gone and the place and its creations can return to their ancient procedures unobserved and undisturbed by the busy,...

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has...

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the haughtiest and most mendacious minute of “world history”- yet only a minute....

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival....

To be, or not to be: what a question!...

Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was...