Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.

I think, therefore I am.

'Do not touch ontologically' doesn't mean 'are separated by empirically measurable hard edges.'

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Metaphysics is a science.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

My purpose is to explain, not the meaning of words, but the nature of things.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

The material universe exists only in the mind.

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.