Quotes About Philosophy

I grew up without religion, but my parents have always been somewhat mystical about nature: The mountain is looking at us, stuff like that.

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.

My biggest fear is death because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere.

I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.

Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.

In equities, you price the risk. As far as debt is concerned, if the markets get more sophisticated where, for the levels of risks that you take, you get the debt returns, we will certainly look at it. It's back to a philosophy of risk-adjusted returns.

People ask me about the way I conduct my life. Sorry, beautiful music is conducted... Lives cannot be conducted.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.

Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Age don't mean nothing. I'm an old soul.

We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.

I believe humans have a soul that continues to exist after they die, but I don't know what form that will take.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.