Quotes About Philosophy

I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.

And I was very, very much influenced by the films of Jean Cocteau and by Sartre and everything that came out of France because it was closer than America or England.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.

When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

I don't believe in jogging. It extends your life - but by exactly the amount of time you spend jogging.

I want the reader to join me on an intellectual and emotional journey into some major aspect of existence.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Am I over existing or am I over existing? That's my inside joke.

Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do.

When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

What then remains but that we still should cryFor being born, and, being born, to die?

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.