Quotes About Philosophy

First and most importantly, death is just the absence of life—oh, and for human beings, the absence of consciousness, too, but not just the absence of consciousness, the absence of the capacity for consciousness.

Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.

when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error.

If the mind of one of the faithful is copied into a computing machine's memory by mapping and simulating all its synapses, is the computer now a Moslem? If not, why not? If so, what are its rights and duties?)

The only question," Eve mused aloud, "is whether time travel via the dream roads is call by value or call by reference.

Compare this to any mess written by Charlie Kaufman.

For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.

It's true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

As the saying goes, the unexamined life is not worth-living.

Obierika was a man who thought about things.

She believed because it was that faith alone that gave her own life any kind of meaning.

H]e developed a private philosophy of total self-reliance, an unyielding internal sufficiency that requires no external support from others.

I remember the philosopher Bertrand Russell was asked why he spent his time protesting against nuclear war and getting arrested on demonstrations. Why didn't he continue to work on the serious philosophical and logical problems which have major intellectual significance? And his answer was pretty good. He said: "Look, if I and others like me only work on those problems, there won't be anybody around to appreciate it or be interested.

To believe in an ideal, is to be willing to betray it. It is something no Sith or Jedi has ever truly learned. -- Kreia, KOTOR 2

I mean, do you believe in God or what? " "Not the name-brand God they serve here." Tim said. "That old guy with the beard, granting wishes out of the clouds to whoever says the most rosaries. That's bullshit. I believe in everything.

The elite, and those who work for them, were never taught how to question the assumptions of their age. The socially important knowledge and cultural ideas embodied in history, literature, philosophy, and religion, which are at their core subversive and threatening to authority, have been banished from public discourse.

They failed to grasp the central Socratic paradox: that it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong.

Whether one believes in miracles or the miraculous has mostly to do with the presuppositions one brings to the subject.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms. It's not about man-hating. It's not about being humorless. We have to let go of these misconceptions that have plagued feminism for 40, 50 years.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?