Quotes About Philosophy

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

I'm a one-nation Tory.

The right has to be more than the Tory party.

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not.

20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or any of hundreds of other belief systems.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

We could be living in a computer simulation like in The Matrix, and the true external reality could be something very different than we suppose.

should also worry that he is being dreamed. (In the Hindu Vedanta tradition, all the world is a dream of Brahma.)

Are you sure you're not a Boltzmann Brain? Or at least, do you know your local environment didn't recently fluctuate into existence? How do you know you're

Purpose and meaning in life arise through fundamentally human acts of creation, rather than being derived from anything outside ourselves. Naturalism is a philosophy of unity and patterns, describing all of reality as a seamless web.

On the other hand, in the memorable words of Richard Feynman, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

There may be no ultimate answer to the "Why?" question. The universe simply is, in this particular way, and that's a brute fact.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. —Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a simple rule that resolves all possible time travel paradoxes.83 Here it is: • Paradoxes do not happen.

argued for new ways of thinking about length and duration.

No encontraremos propósito ni significado en las leyes de la naturaleza, o en los planes de ningún agente externo que hizo que las cosas sean como son; nos corresponde a nosotros generarlos.

Our best theories of people, presented on their own terms and without reference to underlying particles and forces, leave plenty of room for human choice.

NIETZSCHE IS DEAD—GOD.

The issue that troubles us, when we get right down to it, isn't anything about the laws of physics; it's about free will.

We are not the reason for the existence of the universe, but our ability for self-awareness and reflection makes us special within it.

The meaning we find in life is not transacendent, but it's no less meaningful for that.