Quotes About Philosophy

Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only a few mouthfuls of water "you are a fine looking old man" I said to myself in the mirror "and what is more you have the correct attitude You don't care if it ends or if it goes on And as for the women and the music there will be plenty of that in Paradise" Then I went to the Mosque of Memory to express my gratitude

There is a crack in everything

If I spelled out the Principles of Faith I would be barking on the moon.

Just as art is the concealment of art, laissezfaire is the concealment of tremendous generosity.

Listen I would have done the same things even if there were no death.

I was funding my depression; meeting Christ and reading Marx.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all — he's walking on them.

Kant said, there is Das Ding an sich , a thing as it is, and there is Das Ding für uns , a thing as we know it.

The principles of morality are a product not of feeling, but of cognition.

A philosophy of education, in short, is essential to being a proper parent; otherwise, you are merely turning your child over to blind chance.

Statism and the advocacy of reason are philosophical opposites. They cannot coexist—neither in a philosophic system nor in a nation.

The rational (the good) has nothing to gain from the irrational (the evil)," observes Ayn Rand, "except a share of its failures and crimes. . . ."17

I just have a slight fear of being a tiny speck in the infinite cosmic void.

At some point we have to give up and say that's just the way it is. Or, not give up and push on.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, HAMLET

Anyone who doesn't need company is either greater than a man, and is a God, or lesser than a man, and is a beast.17 —Aristotle, as quoted by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Nothing matters.

Nothing matters, and everything matters.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

C'è sempre stato bisogno che l'uomo intelligente fosse il portabandiera di una ideologhia... L'uomo professionalmente libero, che non crede in nessuna ideologhia e invece si colloca di fronte alle cose con spirito critico, non ha fortuna.

Naturalmente... Ma sa com'è? Una volta, in un libro di filosofia, a proposito del relativismo, ho letto che il fatto che noi, ad occhio nudo, non vediamo le zampe dei vermi del formaggio non è ragione per credere che i vermi non le vedano... Io sono un verme dello stesso formaggio, e vedo le zampe degli altri vermi.

Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.