Quotes About Philosophy

One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that's a mistake.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?'

Hello Kitty will never speak.

A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.

I sensed that Confucius is an interesting character. This is someone who lived over 2,500 years ago and is still speaking to us. That people are still reading and repeating what he said so long ago is something I find quite fascinating.

Certainly, I find that 'Mere Christianity' speaks to me. So why am I still an agnostic? Beats me.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'

'Humankind' is an attempt to think the human species without Nature and without humanity.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

I've never had a specific style philosophy. I wear what I know works on me and I'll play around with accessories or some other fun additions for the outfit.

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

So few humans seem to fully exist themselves that I wonder if all this endless speculation and haggling about God is really an exploration of a more interesting and embarrassing question about ourselves.

'Dept. of Speculation' contains numerous enviable lines.

The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a matter of denouncing the illusion, the false infinite, the infinity of religion and all of the theologico-erotic-oneiric myths in which it is expressed.

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in the literature of many cultures and many ages. It was apparently quite common even in the time of the ancient Greeks.

I think speed climbing is kind of an artificial discipline. Climbers compete on the same holds and train on the same holds, which doesn't have much in common with the climbing philosophy in my opinion.