Quotes About Philosophy

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

The world we have created is a product of our thinking.

[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to me and go, 'What have you been doing, you idiot? That's not the point!

Money has yet to make anyone rich.

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.

Learn to accept life in toto. A perfect life is only in the dream world. This, my dear, with all it's heartaches, is it. Our world.

Tragedy is actually untimely comedy

What's freedom for? To know eternity.

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Religion is a virus that we cannot get rid of. A virus of the brain that comes from no other source than itself. We who are uninfected must find the cure.

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.