Quotes About Philosophy

Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.

Intellectually, I believe there's no free will.

Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.

We intellectuals are not stupid: we know the phenomenology of guilt is a bad photocopy of the phenomenology of thought, so it's much cheaper to press that button.

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence.

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

What does it mean to be human, and what is at the human heart, and is there a soul, or is that all there is? Can an artificial being be intelligent? Is 'intelligent' the definition of humanity, or is it something deeper?

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

My intention is not to make clothes. My head would be too restricted if I only thought about making clothes.

I don't intentionally make deep movies.

I have a long-term interest in the humanities.

I am more interested in experiencing life than in analyzing it.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.

Price is the least interesting thing about bitcoin.

'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp.

Material interests are not the only guiding light.

Clothing interests me, but it's not the endpoint of my interest.

Boredom means you develop your own interior life.

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

I understand football through the ball. There are others who interpret the game without the ball.

The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that's very empowering.