Quotes About Philosophy

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

It is certain because it is impossible.

I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

In my religion it's actually better to know you're doing wrong and try to improve that wrong than to think philosophically that what you're doing is right and in fact it is wrong.

I once gave a character in a novel my inability to get past the same point in any work of philosophy: that moment when seeing is suddenly occluded and you know you can go no further.

Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

I've always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable.

I have always been fascinated by Krishna, the Indian deity.

Les (dieux) monothéistes, fieffés machos, n'ont jamais rien compris au bonheur

But will science ever account for it all? That I leave to God.

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

In Italia lo stomaco ha una valenza metafisica. -En Italia el estómago tiene un valor metafísico-

The metaphor never goes very far, anymore than a curve can long be confused with its tangent.

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

Only those ideas which least belong to us can be adequately expressed in words.

Comic absurdity is of the same nature as that of dreams.

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

The sole function of philosophy is to lead us to happiness by way of the shortest possible route.

Instead of attaching ourselves to the inner becoming of things, we place ourselves outside them in order to recompose their becoming artificially. We take snapshots, as it were, of the passing reality, and, as these are characteristic of the reality, we have only to string them on a becoming abstract, uniform and invisible, situated at the back of the apparatus of knowledge, in order to imitate what there is that is characteristic in this becoming itself.