Quotes About Philosophy

That is what philosophers are good for: stating the obvious that no one else is emotionally willing to admit.

That is what philosophers are good for: stating the obvious that no one else is emotionally willing to admit. The trouble with trying to think clearly is that our emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.

Not only is the universal pursuit of self-interest the Reality, it is also the Ideal — if life is an eternal democracy.

God is not dead. He is just not God.

There is more to life, and less to the traditional explanations of it, than meets the eye unaided by reason.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

I ain't a Kat… and I ain't Krazy… it's what's behind me that I am… it's the idea behind me, Ignatz, and that's wot I am.

Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.

Philosophy is really homesickness.

To begin to think is the beginning of disgust of the world.

Many Continentals tink life is a game; the English think cricet is a game.

When I am alone in the forest at night-time and jump from one tree to another, I often think that life is so strange.

I think there is no light in the world but the world and I think there is light

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

Art, in the sense of fine art, often is a kind of religion in our age, because it appears as a means of transcending society at a time when other means of such transcendence are no longer available for many people, particularly the educated.

From the beginning, Scholem made clear that Kabbalah is a writer's mysticism.

I learned how to die a long time ago.

Only now and then had the scholar also become the ruler—Marcus Aurelius, Thomas More, Woodrow Wilson.

George R.R. Martin

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen

The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a few winters? We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.

Missandei: Valar morghulis. Daenerys Targaryen: Yes. All men must die, but we are not men.