Quotes About Philosophy

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

You adhere to a philosophy, but part of the philosophy I have is that I don't want to be too doggone inflexible that I miss a good player.

Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

I've always been attracted to negative influences - I thought that meant you were smart.

'Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

My philosophy as a filmmaker is to inform and entertain at the same time. And when I went away from documentaries into miniseries like 'Roots,' I did the reverse. Instead of just entertaining, I want to inform at the same time.

I read a lot of science fiction, and it's ingrained, in a certain way, and I've been very involved with Kerouac and the Beats, but before that, it was a lot of science fiction.

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

It was always important to me to make sure Pooh came across as much more than a bear of very little brain. There is an innate wisdom there somewhere.

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.

Many people, including myself, had our scientific lives changed by the inspiring new vision of science that Popper gave us.

I'm really freaked out by time. How, for instance, what I did last week is not real in the sense that it's happened. It's just a memory that's filed away in my brain.

We actually form the world at every instant, although we're not cognitively aware of that but - and there are people would argue with that to some degree.

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.