Quotes About Philosophy

Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacralizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

In office a Confucian, in retirement a Taoist.

A salad is not a meal. It is a style.

There is no gravity. The earth sucks.

Spring is a lover Summer, a partier Autumn, an artist Winter, a philosopher

What a gloomy thing not to know the address of one's soul!

With all its ups and downs, skipping is just one more metaphor for life.

Oppenheimer remembered a line from the Bhagavad Gita, the sacred epic of the Hindus. "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." The

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Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable

Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth.

Hier kömmt eine Nahrung, bei der man eher Grillen machen kann. Der liebe melancholische Kaffee!

The Sayings of Confucius: "At fifteen I thought only of study; at thirty I began playing my role; at forty I was sure of myself; at fifty I was conscious of my position in the universe; at sixty I was no longer argumentative; and now at seventy I can follow my heart's desire without violating custom."1

There is no gravity. The earth sucks.

Yet the real issue is not the danger of religion per se, but of dogmatic thinking.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.

In symbolic terms, Great Cthulhu should replace Minerva as the patron spirit of philosophers, and the Miskatonic must dwarf the Rhine and the Ister as our river of choice. Since Heidegger's treatment of Hölderlin resulted mostly in pious, dreary readings, philosophy needs a new literary hero."44

One of the broadest claims of this book is that there will be no further progress in philosophy or the arts without an explicit embrace of the autonomous thing-in-itself.

A wise man of Old Earth had once claimed that science would destroy mankind, not through its weapons of mass destruction, but through finally proving that there was no god.

This is a sublime work whether any higher power exists or not. It does not prove the existence of anything. No gods ever created art.' 'In an earlier age, some might have considered such a sentiment blasphemy.' 'Blasphemy,' said Revelation with a wry smile, 'is a victimless crime.