Quotes About Philosophy

A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says "Why the long face?". The horse replies: "I'm deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law."

It's the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life...

I'm a sort of like post-modern vegetarian, I eat meat........Ironically.

All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to feel my religious faith die, too. As I thought more about it in the bleak days and weeks that followed, I decided the Bible had gotten it exactly backward. Maybe God hadn't created us in His image; maybe we'd created god in our image.

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.

I had to remind myself I was in a food shop. Even in New York, once famous for its rudeness, now stuck in a condition of permanent impatience, I had never seen anything like it. There, a retailer, however jaded, still pretends to honor the shopkeeper's code that a customer is always right. Dario followed a much blunter, take no prisoners philosophy, that actually the customer is a dick.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...

savoring the words, and then aloud to me: "'Reckon not upon long life: think every day the last, and live always beyond thy account. He that so often surviveth his Expectation lives many Lives, and will scarce complain of the shortness of his days. Time past is gone like a Shadow; make time to come present—'" "—So

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously.

why are you reading

We value concepts and ideas above experience

Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. And atheism is… precisely not that. Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position

A world without death is a world without time, and that in turn is a world without meaning, at least human meaning.

It is my obligation as a gentleman to protect philosophers.

Human life was worth little.

To replace this loss of spirituality, millions of Europeans have embraced the secular concept of "relativism." According to this way of thinking, there is no absolute truth, no certain right and wrong. Everything is "relative." What is wrong in my eyes might not be wrong in your eyes. By this logic, even heinous acts can be explained, so they should not - in fact, they cannot - be condemned. The wide acceptance of relativism has rendered Europe weak, confused, and chaotic.

All great philosophers, even the atheists, realized that one of the essential attributes of a civilized people is a belief that good will be rewarded and evil will be punished. In

The secret of basketball is that it's not about basketball.

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!