Quotes About Philosophy

Monsanto will say "That's all there is to it, take it easy, everything's okay, dont take things too serious, it's bad enough as it is without you going the deep end over imaginary conceptions just like you always said yourself

He is the antithesis of Voltaire, the child of Leibniz.

No more self-imposed agony... it's time to think and watch and keep concentrated on the fact that after all this whole surface of the world as we know it now will be covered with the silt of a billion years in time..

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

Nietzsche was right. I won't take the time to tell you who Nietzsche was, but he was right. The world belongs to the strong - to the strong who are noble as well and who do not wallow in the swine-trough of trade and exchange. The world belongs to the true nobleman, to the great blond beasts, to the noncompromisers, to the 'yes-sayers.

Let beauty be your end. Why should you mint beauty into gold? Anyway, you can't;

No man can be intellectually insulted. Insult, in its very nature, is emotional.

When they want to do a thing, in business of course, they must wait till there arises in their brains, somehow, a religious, or ethical, or scientific, or philosophic, concept that the thing is right. And then they go ahead and do it, unwitting that one of the weaknesses of the human mind is that the wish is parent to the thought.

I'd rather be ashes than dust

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.

Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.

I'm not one of those New Age types that believe 'it's all meant to be' and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand.

In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we're going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types.

I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.