Quotes About Philosophy

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

What a piece of work is a man

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.

My philosophy is that the digital revolution will make mankind happier and more productive, and that won't change over the next 300 years. If you don't stick to that original philosophy, even perfect control of a bunch of companies isn't going to do you any good.