Quotes About Philosophy

Kintsugi [is] not just a method of repair but also a philosophy. It's the belief that the breaks, cracks, and repairs become a valuable and esteemed part of the history of an object, rather than something to be hidden. That, in fact, the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.

There are no elegant potatoes.

This is because the Greeks had it backward, and no matter how hard humans try thinking otherwise, they still think like Greeks. For the Greeks, when you looked ahead all you saw was the past. It was like the past was the future.

The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

We're too absorbed in communicating among ourselves to worry about an almighty architect.

Such philosophical musings risk inviting depression or inefficiency. Better just to fix the problem and move on to the next one. It's all part of being a service provider at the end of the line.

Katsuki Sekida, Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy (New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1975; Boston: Shambhala, 2005).

Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties.

That would be all nice and simple, wouldn't it? Be good and go to heaven; be bad and go to hell. Black and white. Rules to live by, to keep everybody civilized. But life isn't simple, so I don't know why we expect death to be. What there is . . . is continued existence. Complex, multilayered, and unique to every individual. Just like life is.

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

Dubito ergo sum - I doubt therefore I am

In reply to the often asked question why he performs dressed as a woman, Kazuo has repeatedly stated: "My intention in dressing as a woman onstage has never been to become a female impersonator, or to transform myself into a woman. Rather, I want to trace my life back to its most distant origins. More so than anything else, I long to return to where I've come from.

Living is hard; Death is easy. And there are no answers on either side.

At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.

God is a philosophical black hole - the point where reason breaks down.

Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists.

Life is too meaningful to die.

The question is how the questioner exists.

The real doubt is the doubt that doubts that it doubts.

The world exists to let Man philosophize.

The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor. And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong to that garden or is yet to be grown.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a solipsist.