Quotes About Philosophy

Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.

Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately I was looking for something that was not tied to tradition.

If life's not funny, then it's just true - and that would be unacceptable.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way and never thinks of himself as having finished.

As a matter of fact, as a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas

Nothing he knew of, enunciated life like death.

There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.

Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.

These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.

I believe all war to be wholly wrong.

We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It's important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.

Christ! What are patterns for?

[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained.

No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.