Quotes About Philosophy

I'm not interested in observed reality.

Who will observe the observers?

I'm not really obsessed with death.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence.

I personally am not so obsessed about immortality for myself. The human body has been designed that way, obsolescence is OK.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

It is at best insufficient and at worst inaccurate to settle on a definition of the Enlightenment, for the obvious reason that there was not just one.

Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?

Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.

Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at all costs. Indeed the spark of humanity can maximize its essence by choosing an alternative that preserves the greatest dignity and some tranquility of mind.

What enables devils to survive is that we are wise enough to understand that there are no answers—there are only questions.

Mi resi conto, allora, che l'unico vero collaudo della forza – del tono muscolare, per così dire – della sanità mentale è la capacità di sostenere l'urto di un interrogativo dietro l'altro senza che vi sia neanche l'ombra di una risposta.

God is a luxury I don't give myself.

It is on this bleak scene that a phenomenon has appeared: the American existentialist—the hipster.

If these really smart philosophers can't agree on what wisdom says, why should I pay them any attention? The answer is——because it's the best shot you've got. If you seriously want to improve your opinions, there's nothing better you can do than engage in a conversation with the best minds our history has produced.

Emerson said, "The soul contains the event that shall befall it.

Mythological thinking cannot be superseded, because it forms the framework and context for all thinking

We're not interested in making sense; it's not our job.

the front seat with his alarm again ringing furiously. "Are you all right?" shouted Milo. "Umphh," grunted Tock. "Sorry to get carried away, but I think you get the point." As they drove along, Tock continued to explain the importance of time, quoting the old philosophers and poets and illustrating each point with gestures that brought him perilously close to tumbling headlong from the speeding automobile.

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