Quotes About Philosophy

I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.

All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.

The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.

Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance.

In the Wu Tzu it says: 'He who would save his life shall lose it, and he who would give up his life shall save it.'

I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.

The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

Why ain't you mad?" I asked. "Might as well get mad at the wind for blowin'. Some things just be what they be.

I'm afraid we're stuck with Kant and his"crooked timber of humanity, from which no straight thing was ever made." If we're going to build another world, it will be from this crooked timber and no other, so we'd better start learning the necessary carpentry.

life without the finitude of death—the inconceivable finality of one's own death—would be intolerable.

I know not who put me into the world, nor what the world is, nor what I myself am. I am in terrible ignorance of everthing. I know not what my body is, nor my senses, nor my soul, not even that part of me which thinks what I say, which reflects on all and on itself, and knows itself no more than the rest.

here?" "John says that all things work for the best," Wealthy said with a faint smile. It was something she had forgotten lately. "I do hope he's right.

Dan Philosophy is what you do when you don't yet know what the right questions are to ask.

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.