Quotes About Philosophy

When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he is a "Newtonian" or of a biologist when asked if he is a "Pasteurian.

Philosophers seek to understand the world; the point, however, is to change it.

there are no fruitful speculations outside of reality.

Do you believe in reincarnation?" I asked as we looked together at the intricate drawings, reading bits about them in the paragraph of text on each page. "I don't," he said. "I believe we're here once and what we do matters.

It's just an idea. There's no harm in ideas." "I ain't so sure of that," said Eddie Karl. "That Hitler had ideas.

History teaches that evil at its most exalted is merely a wretched excess of good.

You think too much. That's the problem with you intellectual types. You spend so much time thinking about life that you can't live.

Who's to say what's tied to all this?" Gab asked. "What's natural and what's not? If it's real then it's part of the reality.

The 'let life not hold you back' kinds, statements that sound profound but actually mean nothing.

The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?

Is soul the stem and body the blossom — or body our stem, with soul its indigenous bloom?

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have, and therefore should be secured, because they seldom return again.

It is alike your interest and mine and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.

Every cloud has a silver lining and every plate of vegetable soup is filled with vegetables.

Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?

As to the pamphlet which he enclosed, proving vegetarianism to be an enfeebling and ultimately fatal practice, I confute it by the simple statement that I — Corno di Bassetto — have been a vegetarian these ten years. Pamphlet or no pamphlet, a mind the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Let us recognize that our wings are to frivol with. The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a Good Time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.

Life's a waste of time, time's a waste of life — so let's all get wasted and have the time of our life.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. The theory that, since the sky rockets following a wallop in the eye are optical delusions, the wallop itself is a delusion and the eye another.

Life itself is a mixture of power and form, and will not bear the least excess of either. To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long.

I've been through so much. I just live each day, and whatever happens, happens. I've lived a very good life. My life has definitely changed, but the attitude is still the same.