Quotes About Philosophy

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

The world is like a cucumber—today it's in your hand, tomorrow up your arse.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

Think long thoughts in short sentences.

There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one. —Hilary Mantel

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon fue el primero en promover la anarquía, que definió en 1840 como «la ausencia de señor, de un soberano». Fue él quien planteó la pregunta: «¿Qué es la propiedad?», a la que contestó con su famosa respuesta: «Un robo».

Reality doesn't owe us comfort.

One never knows, do one?

Aristotle's classic dictum: "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end." It is true for a whole life, is it not? That realization has been

Irony has always seemed the best approach to life, the best way to keep it at arm's length.

Religion is always an irrational enterprise, no matter how ennobling it may be to the human spirit.

He could easily invent an elaborate, plausible universe. But it is one thing to make that universe believable, and another to believe it. That is the difference between art and religion.

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.

Humour is the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life.

It has not been the fashion to be scientific about religion, but it is necessary that we should be scientific; it is time that we examined ourselves as to our faith and tried to know what we believe and why, and on what we base our belief.

A big definition of who you are as a designer, it's the way you look at the world

I was very fierce and very driven at eighteen. But my basic philosophy I think has stayed the same, I'm still an atheist, I still believe strongly in the power of free will (despite the mysticism in my prose). I don't believe in the notion of a pre-ordained destiny, and I think because of the sudden death of my father at sixteen I learnt then that it is essential to live life to the fullest as it could be snatched away at any second.

We translated the basic Hindu teaching that everything is illusion into the modern neurological truth that everything is a figment of your own brain.

The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.