Quotes About Philosophy

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

I have come finally to a simple philosophy of work. I enjoy what I do and do the best I can. That is enough.

The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.

Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.

All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

I've always had philosophy, which has been really helpful for me, getting into the business. I didn't have any connections. I didn't know anyone. It was just about my work.

All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

I have this philosophy that A and B students work for C students.

I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work.

God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man.

The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.

Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .

My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time.

Liberals don't ask 'Does it work?' They ask 'Does it equalize?'

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.