Quotes About Philosophy

There's only one God—everything else is metaphor.' Now, strip away all the metaphors, and what is the one single commandment common to every decent religion ever known?" "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." "Exactly. Every religion in human history has had a variation of it, but why do so few people live by it? Because of all the other crap, because of the metaphors.

I don't believe in God because there is one, I believe in God because there should be.

As Albert Einstein said: The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

that's what religion is. A philosophy of coping. It may bring comfort to the dispossessed, but comfort isn't good for the dispossessed. The dispossessed need to stay pissed off so things can change for the better.

If who I am is what I have and what I have is lost, then who am I?

If we are what we have, and we have nothinh, thenwho are we? Are we nothing?

If I am what I have and all I have is lost, then what am I?

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamed of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?" - Chuang Tzu

I think, therefore I am... not related to you.

What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.

The philosopher Edmund Burke said "there is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

What does it all mean?" many wonder while chasing purposes they're told are worthwhile, but which feel empty. "What is the purpose of this life?" humans have wondered for millennia, contemplating how insignificant we are in the great cosmic symphony.

Eventually, in the guise of preventing "hate speech," all manner of communications will be forbidden. Restrictions will undoubtedly find their way into politics, current affairs, jurisprudence, but they could plausibly be expected to stretch into the realms of philosophy, religion, education, economics, civics, and other subjects that build our fundamental character.

Oh dear, oh dear, I sat there. I am sitting there still. I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.

a person I have come to accept in the way of things here, which, if they can't be changed, they must be endured.

Lige Magan's motto was, two glasses heaven, three glasses hell.

If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move beyond the surface of things, to understand - and you say, No, maybe not... What then? How do you explain the rest of your life to yourself? How do you pass the time until you die? Do you substitute for that an interest in what - eating? Do you spend the next sixty years trying to be fascinated by the act of breathing?

Waren sie nicht alle Reisende, die wussten, dass die eigene Existenz im Angesicht des Universums so flüchtig war wie ein Boxenstopp an der Autobahn?

All of you want to question everything. Is there any more pointless way of wasting away your life than searching for answers that will bring you nothing

Die Hegelliteratur stellt Hegel gern als jemanden dar, der ganz eigene Ideen und Meinungen hat. Das ist nicht nur falsch; Hegel hätte es peinlich gefunden.

No Aristotelian ever thought that what strikes me as self-evident cannot fail to be true. If I am enough of an idiot, the most errant nonsense may strike me as self-evident.

Moral Psychology is a manifestation in the philosophical discipline of ethical nihilism.

What is philosophy? Albrecht Wellmer, I say, or John McDowell. This is how I know what philosophy is.

Life's a beach and then you have sex on it." Maddie Saunders' philosophy