Quotes About Philosophy

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

I believe in the servant-leader model of leadership.

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

In England, we'd leave school at 15 and go on to a college, and I went to further education in a town called Welling Garden City. I fully immersed myself in bohemia there, which included poetry and modern art, jazz, philosophy, social radicalism.

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.

I honestly feel the term 'molecular gastronomy' is mostly misunderstood. It is not a style of cooking. Rather, it is a philosophy which encourages chefs to be more creative.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

I like the art of making money more than the money.

I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself.

We knew of Sartre and we dressed like the French existentialists. Our philosophy then, and remember we were only little kids, was more in following their looks than their thoughts. We were going around looking moody.

In Shakespeare, the moral balances are very fine.

Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine our decisions, actions, and beliefs. Therefore, moral philosophy applies to everything in our lives.

Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.

There's no such thing as morality.

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.