Quotes About Philosophy

I am not a philosopher but a friend, who, with great love and care, wants to share his thoughts.

Thinking beyond the human condition often transcends us from it.

God is simply a magnificent state of the mind, where the finite turns infinite.

Strictly speaking, nothing that's said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can't ever say it.)

Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it.

For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool.

Believing or not makes no difference to the Absolute of Things That Be. But it does to you. For you shall live and die accordingly. A wise person, or a fool. Choose.

The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.

I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.

Justice as fairness provides what we want.

UFO's attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy; its philosophy is more I want to believe this, but I want it proved.

DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: "I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live."

Vegetarianism -- You are what you eat, and who wants to be a lettuce?

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons.

I always said all my life, if I wasn't born and they gave me the question, I'd say, I don't want to be born.

Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.

Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!

People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.

But when Herndon took off on some "deep volume," like the writings of Immanuel Kant, Lincoln would wave it away as indigestible.