Quotes About Philosophy

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.

There was a time when 'universe' meant 'all there is.' Everything. The whole shebang. The notion of more than one universe, more than one everything, would seemingly be a contradiction in terms.

I've been bothered about time generally and our tripartite division of time into past, present, and future. I think I know what the past is, and I think I know what future is, but I'm really not comfortable with the notion of present.

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

My novels are all ideas.

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

I don't meditate anymore, and I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist nowadays, though I do chant mantras here and there depending on the situation.

Some people believe that you should die, and some people think dying is a nuisance. I'm one of the latter. So I think we should get rid of death.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

My father is a big believer in nature over nurture.

I'm an originalist and a textualist, not a nut.

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life.

I don't have a philosophy in a nutshell; I would go on and on too much.

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

I think 21st century should be art without objects.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.

If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!