Quotes About Philosophy

There were several men who had blazed the trail for talking about emotions in philosophy; otherwise my work would have had even more opposition than it did.

I am not a coach for the tackles, so I do not train them.

Well, I'm trained as a classicist, so I like to read the Greeks and Romans.

My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history without spending a lot of money.

There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I'm a martial artist. I don't train for a fight. I train for myself. I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.

The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

My father talked about training as being more about the human spirit than just about your muscles.

Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.

I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.

Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.

The Hindus say, 'Nada brahma,' one translation of which is, 'The world is sound.' And in a way, that's true, because everything is vibrating.

Abstract ideas like equality and liberty have a spurious transparency, and can be used to derive pleasing theorems in the manner of Jean-Jacques Rousseau or John Rawls.

The best way for me to help with my life principals of transparency, democratization, excellence and modernity. I think it has to be like that in every area.

My philosophy is that I may not like all the questions that you ask, and you may not like all the answers that I give, but this is part of a transparent government.

Now as then, the various ideals of happiness carry fundamental moral teachings about how to live.