Quotes About Philosophy

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

I think it's a wonderful fact about Judaism - at least about the approach to Judaism I most relate to: There are no universal answers. We don't have it all figured out. God is unknowable.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

I had spent so much time studying literature at Stanford and the history of medicine at Cambridge in an attempt to better understand the particularities of death, only to come away feeling like they were still unknowable to me.

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

I'm always working in this universe - whether picturing hamburger joints, Virgin Marys, domestic scenes - using these "vacant-faced" women as a medium to question universal truths.

Hermès and my own brand share the same philosophy, the same vision of women, but the two aren't identical.

I feel that the internal worlds of women are not that well represented by society. It is not an immediate thing people think about - the imagination of women or women's philosophy.

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause.