Quotes About Philosophy

I look at my own party, and I see that we've taken this technocratic, academic, elitist liberal class philosophy as far as it can go, and we got our butts kicked - and I don't know what else to do other than get involved myself.

I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them.

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.

Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics.

I want to be good all the time, so I feel anxious. But if you weren't like that, you'd be dead, wouldn't you? If you went out happy down the road, la la la. I've never been like that. I don't want to be.

If had to label myself, I guess classical liberal would be best.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

People like Thomas Aquinas would say we can't talk about God as a creator because we can only have in our heads the idea of a human creator and that can't apply to God. We can't even say that God exists because our notion of existence is too limited to apply to God. People were instructed to think about this in those terms.

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

Some questions can't be answered." "Why?" "The question why will plague you for your entire life.

In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'

Was that the sum total of my exsitence? I didn't get the erudition of 'I think therefore I am.' Instead I got 'I am, therefore I want to fuck Jericho Barrons.

Hours later, Adam propped himself up on an elbow and stared down at Gabrielle, pondering what made beauty. He thought he was beginning to understand. It wasn't symmetry of features; it wasn't perfection. It was uniqueness. That which one person had that no other possessed. That which was only their own.

I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension.

Sonsuz hayat sonsuz sab?r gerektirir. Yeterince uzun yaÅŸarsan, bugün ilgini çekiyorsa bugünün iyi olduÄŸunu düÅŸünebilirsin. Yanl?? veya doÄŸru, bütün ahlaki deÄŸerler, bütün erdemler yok olabilir.

Occam's razor: The simplest explanation that accommodates all variables is most likely the truth.