Quotes About Philosophy

I cannot have gone through what I went through and have lost what I lost if it's all meaningless.

Is it better for man to live with uncertainty? Is the answer of Freud an answer? We should simply learn to accept our position as strange sick creatures? Is the answer of Nietzsche an answer? We should learn to live gladly as guests in a murderous but fascinating world that cares nothing about our presence?

Without man, what is God? And without God, what is man? Everyone needs the help of someone to complete the work of Creation that is never truly completed. Everyone.

theory is an extremely complicated thing, as varied and mixed-up and contradictory as life itself.

Love for me means that someone likes my way of thinking about life and the same philosophy about living. Love is not a prisoner but it makes you realize that you care about this person more than anyone else.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am, and what I am?

I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted faith.

I have the old-school mentality.

If you look at the brands that I like, there are brands I like because of the clothes; then, there are brands I like because of their attitude and mentality.

For me, how I live every day is with the kind of mentality that you're never, ever guaranteed tomorrow.

Of course every manager has a different mentality, different philosophy.

I have a different mentality on the field.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

I see the merit in religion, and I see the need for faith and hope and sometimes people who are more snide look at people who are religious, particularly people in rock bands, and they'll say, 'Oh that's dumb, you believe in whatever,' but I think everybody believes in something.

I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.