Quotes About Philosophy

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

Writers are not meant for action.

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy.

The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

After all is said and done," said the Dormouse, "there is nothing to be done. Or said.

We are an experiment in situation ethics set by the unnamed god.

Kendi ölümünün düÅŸünü kurabilmek, ne armaÄŸan ama...

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery, she said to herself, not for the first time. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

It seems to me the nature of the world is all one thing or all the other. Either there is nothing but coincidence or there is nothing but established fare.

After all, what kind of a life is it that is not pestered by insects? A perfect one, and since life is not perfect, this cannot be life.

Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger--

A certain young scholar of Shiz Right before a philosophy quiz Guzzled splits of champagne So that he could declaim "I drink, and therefore I is.

Nunca uso las palabras humanista o humanitario, porque, para mí, el ser humano es capaz de cometer los crímenes más atroces de la naturaleza.

Eu nunca uso as palavras humanista ou humanitário, pois me parece que ser humano significa ser capaz dos crimes mais hediondos da natureza.

It is existentially, hyperbolically, quintessentially unknowable.

Perhaps our time here is limited, said Frex, sighing with contentment and clasping his arms behind his head - the typical male response to happiness, thought Melena: to predict its demise.

And every time we hear people talk about Heaven or angels or past lives or their loved ones being in a better place and looking down on them right now, we're reminded: "Oh, yeah. We don't think that. We think that when we die, we die forever. We don't think our dead loved ones are with God. We think that they're fucking dead." We have to face death a little bit, every day of our lives. It's like an inoculation.

But when I compare the idea that "Yeah, sometimes life sucks, and I have to deal with it as best I can" with the idea that "An immensely powerful being is screwing with me on purpose and won't tell me why" — I, for one, find the first idea much more comforting. I don't have to torture myself with guilt over how I must have angered my god or screwed up my karma, with that guilt piling onto the trauma I'm already going through.

religious ideas about death can be profoundly upsetting to people who don't believe them. Sentiments that many believers find comforting — such as Heaven and Hell, or God's plan for life and death — are, for many non-believers, more than just ideas they don't agree with. They are ideas they find distressing, hurtful, and repugnant.