Quotes About Philosophy

the essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.

Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and a body that is worth about 98¢.

There it was: number 42. Another of Halliday's jokes—according to one of his favorite novels, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the number 42 was the "Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation was a big place.

Besides, now I was thinking there just might be a God after all—that would explain who was currently fucking with my whole notion of reality.

Philip K. Dick

O que acontece depois da morte? Bem, não sabemos ao certo. Mas as evidências sugerem que não acontece nada. Você morre, seu cérebro para de funcionar e você some e deixa de fazer perguntas irritantes.

the number 42 was the "Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

according to one of his favorite novels, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the number 42 was the "Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

All thinking men are atheists.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

Do I know what a man is ? Do I know how a man is supposed to die ? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived ?

I am not deliberately avoiding your question, General, only seeking a true answer. You ask if I am educated. Who knows what an edudated man is? My brain has been enriched with the logic of Aristotle, yet I know not how to milk a goat. I am acquaintanted with the science of Euclid, yet I cannot find a well or sail a vessel. I am familiar with Platonic philosophy, but I cannot build anything durable. Obviously I am an ignorant man.

Gödel saw beyond the surface level of number theory, realizing that numbers could represent any kind of structure.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.

Durante o transcorrer de nove meses, um homem pode pensar em muitas coisas, desde o mais alto conceito filosófico até o desejo mais abjeto por um prato de sopa – tudo de acordo com o estado de seu estômago. E se, ao mesmo tempo, esse homem for do tipo aventureiro, ele poderá viver experiências que talvez interessem às demais pessoas e seu relato casual se parecerá com este diário.

Only an atheist can be a good Christian.

I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.