#phil

Necrophilia is for those who arrive too late to say goodbye. Biophilia is for those who need a posthumous thrill out of life. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #necrophilia #funny

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adopt #been #certain #circumstances #determined

I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#barely #big #business #certainly #going

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ↗

— Epictetus

#essence #external #external things #happiness #his

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#housed #magazine #many #opinions #philosophies

In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side. ↗

— John Hume

#clear #coming #differences #either #gave

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. ↗

— Plato

#politics #political

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#future #philosophy #plato #religion

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#comes #criticizes #critique #everything #just

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? ↗