Quotes About Philosophy

You think that nuclear war is inevitable. I agree with Plato that only the dead have seen an end to war. And people dont fight with rocks when they have guns. Etcetera and so on.

If our world is regulated by reductionist, narrow, sophomoric versions of Darwin; or reductionist, narrow, sophomoric versions of religious dogma; you end up being childishly anti-scientific, and childishly anti-religious, and you miss the very complex interaction [they share]

racial reasoning discourages moral reasoning.

Los libros deben ser pesados porque contienen el peso del mundo en ellos

A imortalidade era digna e precisa. Certamente não necessitava de um coração.

Look, there are as many walkaway philosophies as there are walkaways, but mine is, 'the stories you tell come true.' If you believe everyone is untrustworthy, you'll build that into your systems so that even the best people have to act like the worst people to get anything done. If you assume people are okay, you live a much happier life.

Interesting office management skills, kind of a 'violence is not the answer so I'm going to beat the shit out of you philosophy.

You cannot fight time itself, slay the minutes and hours with your blade, wipe the bleeding seconds on your shirt. Time cannot be fought.

Is the universe a Good Egg or a Bad Egg?

I wonder," said Crusher slowly, "if the fate of human beings is predetermined by the stars, or do they forge their own destiny? Is there really such a thing as 'luck'? And what exactly do we mean by the concept of 'free will'?" Which were all interesting questions, but perhaps not entirely helpful right at that particular moment.

You cannot fight Time itself, slay the minutes and the hours with your blade, nor wipe the bleeding seconds on your shirt. Time cannot be fought.

Men believe themselves to have free will because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined. —BARUCH SPINOZA

Cogitatur depends on Est; and there's no avoiding it.

There were many terrible moments, a lifetime of terrible moments really, which is not the same as terrible lifetime.

Non sono degno di odiare risposi. Solo un essere puro può odiare. Quel che gli uomini chiamano odio, non è che viltà. Tutto ciò che è umano è sporco e vile. L'uomo è una cosa orrenda.

It's not about right belief; it's about right practice.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

And do you call yours a divine discontent?' 'Yes. I don't care about its divinity. But damn your happiness! So long as life's full, it doesn't matter whether it's happy or not. I'm afraid your happiness would bore me.

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

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.

Man is a mistake. He must go.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.