Quotes About Philosophy

It is the poor man who clenches so tightly to the gold he is given—for fear of losing it. The man of wealth spends his gold freely to accomplish his will in the world. It is the same with life.

What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death.

Beliefs are not related to religion but they are basically about who you are.

Time and space have no meaning, just as your conscious thoughts are meaningless.

Knowing that the brain is predisposed to religion and spirituality, then might it be that God is a creation of the brain?

Philosophers think, creators make!

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

I content that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods you will understand why I dismiss yours.

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

Thoreau was our suburban coyote [Edward Abbey].

A soul. A soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die.

The deduction reached by top modern philosophers on this question is that things exist for two reasons: they are either necessary or they were caused.

God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.

I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions—and should be vigorously opposed.

I believe there is an explanation for everything - although we shall never know the explanation for everything. Not everything in this world can be understood by us, nor should it be. It is not necessary.

to him Marx and Rand were the same because he went by pant size

We are a mirror to show god it's cruelty.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

Let me once again give you the principle I offered in chapter 2: If there is no God, there are no values; if there are no values, there is no meaning; and if there is no meaning, you are a turnip and will simply live for a while, die, and then go back to the soil from which you came.

Which comes first: Good or Evil? Usually evil. Good counters.

If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation.

As the twentieth century was about politics, which is to say survival, the twenty-first is about God, which is to say oblivion, a subject his country is profoundly unprepared to contemplate.