Quotes About Philosophy

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.

It just goes to show you that the "R" and the "D" are meaningless - what really matters is whether someone believes in the spirit and unending compassion of the individual, or instead in the destructive power of the collective.

Speaking with John McWhorter] I take umbrage at the lionisation of lightweight, empty-suited, empty-headed motherfuckers like Ibram X. Kendi. Who couldn't carry my book bag. He hasn't read a fucking thing. If you ask him what Nietzsche said, he would have no idea. He's an unserious, superficial, empty-suited, lightweight - he's not our equal, not even close.

in the face of severe injustice, a refusal to dissent is the sign of a character flaw or moral failure. Philosophy

It was a good thing; and to admit that a good thing has derived from an evil thing is to bend the knee to evil to some extent.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential,not God

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Surrealism is the triumph of form over content.

When someone asks me if I believe in God and I say no—I believe in people—I

Atheism is no genius, science stuff.

The art of life is being extremely serious about it and not caring about it at all, both at the same time.

The universe is either divine or it is not. If it is, it came to existence by itself and it is God. If it is not, it requires divinity to exist. Because there must be divinity for the universe to make sense.

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or 'scholarship candidates,' but 'Fellows of another college.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

This life, gentlemen, is too short for our souls.

All theory is gray, but the tree of life, my friend, is green.

Der Mensch muss bei dem Glauben verharren, dass das Unbegreifliche befreidlich sei; er würde sonst nicht forschen.

I call the Classical what is healthy and the Romantic what is sick. - Goethe in 1829

Sono fantasmi se sono la felicità?

The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, even though this world is forever altering values.

Everyone has a theology [that is, some rudimentary view of God and the world on the basis of which they live]; the question is not whether you have a theology—you do—but whether you have a good one.

Is thinking small?" asked Isobel. "Small as air." May tapped my head with her finger. "And just as big.

Before laissez-faire there was wu wei. "Practise not doing and everything will fall into place," says the Tao Te Ching, Taoism's primer.

Among borrowers there is a philosophy that "it's better to repay late than repay early, and it's better not to repay than to repay late." China, in short, is in the process of creating a society "based on the repudiation of debt," warns a prominent Beijing scholar.