Quotes About Philosophy

The opposite of a plain truth, Neils Bohr liked to repeat, is a plain falsehood. But the opposite of a deep truth is another deep truth.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world. (p. 40)

When you didn't force yourself to think in formal reconstructions, when you didn't catch these moments of ravishments under the lens of premises and conclusions, when you didn't impale them and label them, like so many splayed butterflies, bleeding the transcendental glow right out of them, then... what?

I am Nigel 'Benjamin Button' Benn, it's not about age.

You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.

Barcelona has always had calm coaches.

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

I don't care about revenues.

The truth is that I never cared about money. Not one bit.

Some people, if you eat a carrot, you're killing it.

We've always had a simple philosophy in casting. We don't care if somebody's a big star or a little star. We just want the best possible actor for the part.

I have a very simple philosophy when it comes to casting, and it really is casting the best person for the role.

We have a particular philosophy in the casting room that we don't really tell the actors - the actors tell us.

As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

If you've read 'Dark Ecology,' you'll know there's a whole thing about cats in it, more than once.

I don't own a cell phone. I've never turned on a computer in my life.

I would put myself towards left of center.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.

It's not important how many mistakes you make; it's about how many chances you create and how many goals you score. That is my philosophy.

As long as there are chances, we have to fight to the end. That's Madrid's philosophy.