Quotes About Philosophy

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.

My music is not really about one ideology. It's not about one truth.

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.

Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

There is no revolution that can change the nature of man

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.