Quotes About Philosophy

I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Daddy taught us through his philosophy of nonviolence, which placed love at the centerpiece, that through that love we can turn enemies into friends. Through that love, we can create more dignified atmospheres.

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.

When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during our lives, into a golden consciousness, which is a much better place to be.

We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder - some would say impossible - to imagine the end of our very existence.

By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.

I truly believe that we have the best health care system in the world. It's not perfect, but this business of turning it over to the federal government to try to make it perfect is quite honestly asinine.

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

Let me say that discovering Tagore was the turning point of my life.

I think high turnover is definitively the investor's enemy, so you don't want to bring a high-turnover philosophy to this business. You want to have a long-term philosophy.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

Judge my columns, enjoy my tweets. That's my philosophy.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

I am not by any means a philosopher, although I have worked with some talented people in the discipline. But certain philosophical concepts deeply inform the way I think about the world. The idea of 'opposing truths at extremes' is a powerful concept that I came to appreciate in my twenties.

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically , I can say that photography is the art of writing with time.

I've thought a lot about how if something horrible happened, and if it were like 'The Road' situation, I've decided I don't want to survive past the death of society as we know it.

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated.

Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.