Quotes About Philosophy

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

Man is an intellectual animal, therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two without the possibility of its ever being otherwise. A mere physical being or a pure spirit can alone be satisfied with itself.

Some day music will be the means of expressing universal religion. Time is wanted for this, but there will come a day when music and its philosophy will become the religion of humanity.

To create happiness for oneself and others is the whole philosophy of religion.

Then again it may be said, there is a purpose above each purpose, and there is again a purpose under each purpose; and yet beyond and beneath all purposes there is no purpose. The creation is, because it is.

Premoderns placed their trust in authority. Moderns lost their confidence in authority and placed it in human reason instead. Postmoderns kept the modern distrust of authority but lost their trust in reason and have found nothing to replace it. This is the crux of all postmodern thought.

here is the nub of the issue between Christianity and postmodernism: what is freedom?

You once said you had studied at the university," said Eve shyly. "What did you stufy, please?" Azalea blushed. It was all right for the girls to interrogate normal gentlemen, but this was the one she wanted to keep. "Ah," said Mr. Bradford, coloring as well. "Politics, actually. Some philosophy, and sciences. But...mostly politics, I'm afraid.

Our current higher education system is steeped in a philosophy that doubts our ability to even perceive the physical world. That philosophy is called postmodernism.

The world is not always ours to understand....

Anyone to whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart. —Ludwig Wittgenstein

So what are your poems about? They're about ... how nothing is about, they're not about about. --Heather McHugh, 20-200 on 747

Perhaps spirituality is another word for curiosity.

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

You're a witch?- I shake my head. -I don't believe in organized religion. Why limit body, mind, and spirit in just one way?

Is it always "or"? Is it never "and"? —STEPHEN SONDHEIM, INTO THE WOODS Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) —WALT WHITMAN, "SONG OF MYSELF

That was how, whatever else they were, Claude and Poppy became Buddhists for life.

You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.

What do I want? The answer to that question does not exist.

Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.

Real religion is no religion at all.

Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life.

He who is about to sing the fourth song is either a man or a stone or a tree.

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.