Quotes About Philosophy

Comedy is deep and wild and I am excited about the mysteries within.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.

I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

Human beings are not capable of creating a thought that truly conceives of this existence. Nobody knows if we are really here, alive, or anything. It's a mystery.

I've never been career-oriented. Did I ever want to be a star? What's a star? Is that something in the heavens? That's the only definition that comes to my mind. And the most important goals in my life have been to move gently, to be at ease with the mystery of what it's all about.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

Mythology and history are my passion. I grew up in a religious family and learnt about our scriptures and philosophies. It's the language I'm comfortable with.

Hinduism especially - in the absence of codified rituals or a book of rules to circumscribe it - has always functioned as part philosophy, part mythology, leaving it open to competing and contradictory interpretations.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

I do believe in the idea of a historic person named Jesus that was a kind of chill dude who was just telling people to chill and be nice to each other. And he got penalized for that.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Brand names aren't important to me at all.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

On social questions, national defense, economic issues, I'm a strong conservative.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man.

The reason my games are chaotic is that the world is chaotic, not me. I don't aim for bad endings - they just naturally come out.

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

Samson is talking to a bum on the street.) A guy stops near here every morning with a truck-picks up guys to do yard work, but he only takes Mexicans. Says whites are too lazy....I'm not lazy, the bum said. I earned a degree in philosophy. I'll give you a dollar, Samson said I'm having trouble finding work in my field. (The bum replied)

Know thyself' was Socrates' challenge, a challenge both to personal memory and to honesty.

Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times. It deals with what you believe about the world in which you live, about its people and events, about how you affect them.

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