Quotes About Philosophy

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.

In 1946, I re-enrolled at the University of Budapest in order to obtain a Ph.D. in philosophy with minors in sociology and in psychology.

We shifted our philosophy from being a computer mapping group that would support planners to the idea of building actual software that would be well engineered. Because at that time, our software was not well-engineered at all; it was basically built with project funding and for project work, largely by ourselves.

I was never ideological in any sense, or a slave to any particular politics or religion. My solace and my inspiration always came from books and literature.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

There is a moral underpinning to economics. And the kinds of questions that it asks and the kinds of solutions it proposes do seem to me to belong in a more humanistic framework.

In mathematics and science we solve our problems as well as create them. But in art and philosophy things are not so simple.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Some people just aren't meant to be happy.

I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

Some things can be quite stupid yet interesting. Life can be like that.

I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it's been amazing to me, everything I read before about psychology, philosophy, just to put it into practice somehow.

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist."(Voltaire)

All I care for is the inclusion of my name in the list of the believers of the supremacy of human soul over all other masterpieces He has ever produced.

If God thought it necessary to offer rewards for love, your God must be immoral.

There is no way to find a logical way to deal with this when logic isn't involved.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.