Philosophy Quote by Aidan Chambers — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If we try to measure Now, we find it's always gone, has become part of the past.”

“Ah, clever clogs, but it”

“a joy that hurts with sadness”

“Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?”

“The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.”

“You know, nothing is stronger than blood bonds. What else is the reason for the success of life insurance policies? Why bother with what happens to your blood relatives after your death? After all, you stop existing. Why then bother about what is happening to your kids, and why be concerned about what is happening on Earth even? Well, it’s because, after one’s final exit, one lives through one’s children.”

“This causation exists as a streamed organization of constantly fluid potential. Anything that can be must first hold the streaming potential to be. It is soul.”

“€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.”

“O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.”