Quotes About Philosophy

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

What was the truth? he wondered. How important was it to know? And once he knew, what then?

Every story is informed by a worldview.

Premise one: If Yahweh Elohim is all-powerful he could destroy evil. Premise two: If Yahweh Elohim is all-loving he would destroy evil. Premise three: Evil is not destroyed. Conclusion: Yahweh Elohim is either unable or unwilling to destroy evil." Now it was Enoch's turn to pause for dramatic effect. He milked it with relish.

Moderns fancy themselves as more intellectually sophisticated than ancient man, yet they are often ignorant of the fact that their notions of existential angst and individual identity that they think is the erudite offerings of modern existentialist philosophers like Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Nietzsche, were wrestled with millennia before the chaotic narcissistic spasm of the modern period.

there is an inherent rationality to life that makes it intelligible at a much deeper level than functional utility …

I was holding [my four-year-old daughter] and I said, 'Sophia, I love you more than anything in the universe.' And she turned to me and said, 'Daddy, universe or multiverse?'

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

comparing infinities is a treacherous business

Aristotle raped reason. He implanted in the dominant schools of philosophy the attractive belief that there can be discrete separation between mind and body. This led quite naturally to corollary delusions such as the one that power can be understood without applying it, or that joy is totally removable from unhappiness, that peace can exist in the total absence of war, or that life can be understood without death. —ERASMUS, Corrin Notes

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like to believe it's worthwhile. And yet, I can't help but recall something ... said to me once when I was young: "All of these things with which we occupy ourselves don't amount to much in the cosmic scale of things, do they? No matter how extensively we ponder any particular topic, there is really very little there"--Gilbertus Albans, Reflections in the Mirror of the Mind

God" signifies God/ultimate reality/final truth, not just a personal divinity. And "religion" signifies religion/spiritual path/philosophy, not just a mainstream theology.

The medieval Dominican theologian Thomas Aquinas, who greatly influenced Eckhart and all theologians of the era, made the distinction between God as a verb (esse: to be) and the created universe as a noun (ens: being). Commenting on Aquinas, Paul Philibert, OP, says, "God is not a static reality on a shelf. God is active everywhere in the sense that wherever anything exists, God's is the present, active force of its existence.

El dinero no es bueno ni malo; aunque a veces sea importante, no proporciona una verdadera seguridad.

do. If life had taught her anything—if she had a philosophy of life—it probably boiled down to that: Go with the skid.

Death is the only grammatically correct full stop…

Y entonces pienso que, si el mundo es un gran mecanismo, tiene que haber alguna razón para que yo esté en él.

When I check my phone to remember I exist and I shake it and shake it I shake myself, as if to clear the Etch A Sketch of my face. If I'm dead inside how would I know, how would a bulb check its own filament.

I love you and I feel sad just like real people, so I must be human... Mustn't I?