Quotes About Philosophy

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

I am an atheist, and I believe that religion should not be in the classrooms; it has to be in the churches. In the classrooms, you have to form citizenship, not people with religious beliefs, that corresponds to the private sphere.

Faith and reason overpower each other throughout one's life, which results in contradiction, but the conflict never ceases in any sphere.

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

Regular readers will know that curries are my favourite thing, and I wanted to go back to the start and really research the history and philosophy of Indian cuisine, rather than just toasting spices, slow-cooking onions. I was hungry to understand this food that I love so much.

Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.

One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit.

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

I'm your basic atheist that believes in maybe - I'm a spiritual atheist.

It's not only about the material things - I also have a spiritual side.

Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.