Quotes About Philosophy

The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous.

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

Judaism is in all my books.

You see, Hinduism is not confined to the strictness of the desert, but belongs to the universe. Judaism, Christianity and Islam become limited by desert boundaries, but Hinduism is much freer - there are no set rules.

I've never been much to believe that my Creator will judge me or anyone at their final days. I don't really know if I believe in going to Heaven or Hell.

My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

I'm spiritual, yes, but I don't think about Judgment Day. I don't think about an angry God.

Technology has made music accessible in a philosophically interesting way, which is great. But on the other hand, when everybody has the ability to make magic, it's like there's no more magic - if the audience can just do it themselves, why are they going to bother?

Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

Politics is a matter of day-to-day improvisation, and it often seems as though the major parties are guided only by the desire to stay in office and not by any philosophy that might justify their doing so.

A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.

Kant described beauty as a feeling of ungraspability: this is why the beauty experience is beyond concept.

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.

If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.

I don't believe in karma.

Listen, I'm a proud Democrat. My heroes are the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King. And I don't apologize for that and never will.

Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure that my brother and I would be atheists, too, and it worked, which doesn't mean that they didn't teach us a lot of wonder of science and of nature and the world and all of that.

Age ain't nothing but a figure. Let's go out there and play some kick the can. It's all in the mind; let's become kids. That's been my philosophy of life anyhow, man.

Human beings have kicked around the concept of what individual happiness means for centuries, from the Bible to the ancient Greeks to the 1859 bestseller 'Self-Help.'