Quotes About Philosophy

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.

A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.

If women are so smart, how come hardly any philosophers have been, and now are, female?

Great bodies die but great minds don't die! Inside the tomb of great men lay dead body's but at the library of great men lay the living minds of dead bodies!

Having started in sciences, I then turned around and said, 'Oh, I don't want to do sciences. I want to do philosophy.' And to their credit my parents said, 'if that's what you want to do, then go for it'. Then I got the scholarship to Stanford, which was very nice for the parents to talk to their friends about.

When we look up into the starry night sky, we tend to see reflections of ourselves.

The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.

I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'

When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.

I love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

I'm finding myself increasingly attracted to literature that starts with pessimism as it's leading point and goes from there.

I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.

Cold is a state of mind.

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.

I bill myself as a naturalist because if you say you're a naturalist, it gives people a conversation point to talk about what you actually do believe in, instead of when you say you're an atheist, and it's really just a statement of what you don't believe in.