Quotes About Philosophy

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

I do think you have sort of a general philosophical approach that you want from a justice, and I think a strict constructionist would be probably the way I'd describe it.

The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

For me as a man, philosophically, when you talk about honor and integrity, thatÂ's the way I want to live my life. It moved me.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

...he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.

I believe if you want to convey a complex philosophy, its advisable to keep it simple: day-to-day lingo.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything.

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

It's not so much a philosophy as much as it is a pace. We need to be personally involved with every aspect of the records including the artwork, we want everything to have a similar aesthetic.

Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.

Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

The afterlife I'm not so sure about. So, I don't understand why you'd want to hurt other people in thinking that you'll go on in the afterlife to have bliss. I just don't understand it.

[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that.

Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.

Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.