Quotes About Philosophy

Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao...

I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.

If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?

Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.

When we die, we get put right back on earth to live our miserable existences over and over and over for all eternity.

What is the value of human life? We are made up of so much water.

As far as I can see, nobody's got The Truth, The Answer, or The God.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Buddha: 'Onward! Forward to the fund-raiser.' Mahavira: 'Onward! Forward to - wait a minute. Did I hear someone swat a mosquito?

NED: I belong to a culture that includes Proust, Henry James, Tchaikovsky, Cole Porter, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Marlowe, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Tennessee Williams, Byron, E. M. Forster, Lorca, Auden, Francis Bacon, James Baldwin, Harry Stack Sullivan, john Maynard Keynes, Dag Hammarskjöld . . . These are not invisible men.

This story has no point but stillness itself...

The naked human body is the grave in blossom: it is both Sad & instructive.

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Dead. I had to be dead. But dead men don't think about death. What do dead men think about? Dead men don't think. I was thinking - but I was dead. That struck me as funny and set off hysterics. And then I'd get myself under control and go 'round and 'round with it again. Dead. This was like nothing any religion had ever taught. Not that I'd ever 'caught' any of the religions going around. But none had warned of this.

If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

It is possible to bathe in nonsense ... to be refreshed by it.

If a book doesn't make you want to throw it aside and think your own thoughts, what use is it?

Did we really think we could escape the end of philosophy?, W. wonders. Did we really think we could make a philosophy out of the end times, when the end times means: the end of philosophy?

An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.

Einstein said, So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality.

Si los ángeles pueden matar, ¿por qué nosotros no podemos amar?

La eternidad! —exclamó Bipa con desdén—. ¿De qué te sirve la eternidad si para ello has de renunciar a la vida? Bipa