Quotes About Philosophy

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

I have no idea who coined the term 'the New Journalism,' or when it was coined. I have never even liked the term. Any movement, group, party, program, philosophy or theory that goes under a name with 'new' in it is just begging for trouble, of course.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.

True time is four-dimensional.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Knowledge is true opinion.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.

If you challenge multiculturalism you are seen to be a racist. But it's a political philosophy that needs to be looked at. If you don't, you're taking it on trust, which is intellectually dishonest.

I want to be strong because you believe in me. You have to trust me. I give my knowledge to you. That is my philosophy.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.