Quotes About Philosophy

To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.

Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.

Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.

It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes. --Villa Incognito

The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

logic limits love, which may be why Descartes never married.

In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.

In the world according to the positivist, the inspiring thing about scrambled eggs is that any way you turn them they're sunny side up. In the world according to the existentialist, the hopeless thing about scrambled eggs is that any way you turn them they're scrambled.

If the earth needs night as well as day, wouldn't it follow that the soul requires endarkenment to balance enlightenment?

Time brought along its secretary, memory, and space brought its brat, loneliness.

If love eats the donut, does time eat the hole?

If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.

It seems like with you everything leads back to the subject of death. Sure and show me the person's road that does not lead to death. we try to divert our attention, to pretend 'tisn't so, but the very air we breathe is vulture's breath. Please don't be insinuatin' your man is morbid. I dwell on death in order to defeat it.

When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life that is almost as deep-seated as the fear of death. Indeed, the resentment of life and the fear of death are virtually synonymous. Does it follow, then, that the more people ask of living, the less their fear of dying?

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. In fact, the person who maintains absolute standards of good and evil usually is the maniac with the revolver.

Okay, it is what it is and I am what I it, but its isness and my itness seem to be stretching the meaning of is and it.

In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine joke; a long joke that's being continually retold in an accent too thick and too strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke, my friends. The soul is the punch line.

that no matter how valid, how vital, one's belief system might be, one undermines that system and ultimately negates it when one gets rigid and dogmatic in one's adherence to it.

Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.

Life isn't simple; it's overwhelmingly complex. The love of simplicity is an escapist drug, like alcohol.

Switters had always seemed to take a both/and approach to life, as opposed to the more conventional and restrictive either/or.

He felt that since energy was the only permanent thing in the universe, it was the most (if not only) significant thing.