Quotes About Philosophy

The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully natural explanation for mind and consciousness, people turn to supernatural explanations to fill the void.

The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.

To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.

I have never been a Conservative, or at least not since being a young teenager. My father voted Conservative, and even his doing that was a hangover from the '50s and '60s, which may have been an influence on me.

I think the average voter wants somebody who has the right philosophy and can combine that with the ability to get something done in Washington.

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.

The answer is that if God exists, he doesn't seem to mind if you believe in him or not.

Harry Dean Stanton

Everything is self-evident.

I'm really into Deepak Chopra and self-help books.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Some say I'm selfish. My approach is the complete opposite of selfishness.

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.

In my own life, my science and my religion are separate.

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Now I find seriousness to be rather ridiculous.

I am not somebody who sets goals... It's not something that I have enjoyed doing.

Christopher Hitchens

You only live once, except for Shirley MacLaine.

I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

I won't talk of bad luck. I don't believe in it.