Quotes About Philosophy

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life.

I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.

I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.

And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates' philosophy, and I think it's a different time and a different generation.

If you ask my favourite team, I'll say Arsenal. It is a club with a good philosophy, where youngsters get their chance.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.

Weight loss can change your whole character. That always amazed me: Shedding pounds does change your personality. It changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body.

You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence's biography on him, 'Hold on to Your Dreams,' one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.

My parenting philosophy pretty much boils down to this: I love my kids; I tolerate yours. Mine just make common, age-appropriate mistakes - phases, let's call them - while your kids are completely undisciplined and probably need counseling.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

I love Alain de Botton and listen to his little 'School of Life' YouTube vids as I do the dishes.