Quotes About Philosophy

The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability

No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

You can wear your hair long or wear a beard because you want to show that you are interested in thought, in psychological endeavors rather than appearance.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

To me, as a visual artist, I don't want to get into the theory of Buddhism. There are many Buddhism theories and they fight each other, like Christians as well.

Many people, including many important and well-respected scientists, just don't want there to be anything beyond nature. They don't want a supernatural being to affect nature.

To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.

I like Colin Wilson, mainly because he never went to school. When you don't go to school you can say anything you want like that and not have to worry.

A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?

The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.

If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.

Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.