Quotes About Philosophy

Aren't we all better dead? the opium reasoned within me.

don't worry. I'm not shocked. I have no politics.

St Augustine asked where time came from. He said it came out of the future which didn't exist yet, into the present that had no duration, and went into the past which had ceased to exist.

It always seemed strange to Wormold that he continued to exist for others when he was not there.

I suppose in all lives a moment comes when we wonder--suppose after all there is a God, suppose the theologians are right.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

You don't think nature has accidents, do you?

I remember something the Warmaster said back in the day, you know, back before everything went to shit. He said that man has control of action alone, never the fruits of the action. Take control of your actions, Garvi. Remember that when things look their worst, you can only do what you think is right at the time.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.' – the philosopharch Nietzsche, circa M2

From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

Look at us! Are we not proof that there is no good, no evil, no truth, no reason? Are we not proof that the universe is a drooling idiot with no fashion sense - Mr Nobody on the fundamental philosophy of the Brotherhood of DADA

Animal Man: 'Listen, just tell me one thing: am I REAL or what?' Grant Morrison: 'Of COURSE you're real! We wouldn't be here talking if you weren't real. 'You existed long before I wrote about you and, if you're lucky, you'll still be young when I'm old or dead. 'You're more real than I am.

The interior of our skulls contain a portal to infinity...of course it's happening in your head but why on earth should that mean it's not real?

But where in all of this description is the essential chair? Have we yet come even close to a full description of it? Did we even mention that several hundred years ago, it wasn't a chair but a tree? Where is it now? Here? Or in memory. We cannot even fully describe a chair and yet we say I am. I am.... Understand. There is no I am. Nothing is . Try to describe all that you are. Simultaneously discern the logical flaw in what I've just said. Now! Feel the white flame.

Jane: Cliff...Oh! The metal's warm, like skin. Look at me, Cliff. Listen. Love means nothing at all. Life means nothing at all. Cliff: What?

There's only one joke worth laughing at and it's the joke of existence.

Medicine, academia, politics, social philosophy, capitalism, even religion all consistently miss the mark. If we base our lives on their precepts, we, too, will miss the mark of our highest calling. The greatest pursuit is not good health, unsurpassed wisdom, economic surplus, political freedom, or even faith that can move mountains. Unconditional, nonjudgmental loving. This is our aim, life's single highest and most rewarding pursuit.

Odd how food and water and a clean body—and a few moments of rest—lead me into philosophy.

Humans believe in nothingness, in zeros. It is one of their distinguishing traits. They keep inventing nothing. Forerunners know otherwise.

I wondered if one's life history was the result of world-lines collapsing in response to simple force of character. The dilemma had not been solved in a thousand years of human philosophy.

I've asked for Philip K. Dick.

As the late John Keel said, "To hell with the answer. What is the question?"     Alien

God is all powerful. God is good. Evil exists. You can reconcile any two of those statements, but not all three.