Quotes About Philosophy

You can close the shutters on your life and dwell in a dreamlike existence, poor in deeds but effervescent in thought.

so it was hard to believe that establishing once and for all that there was no God could ever be done definitively. But if it were possible…would Leonard even mind at this point? Would he truly care if he and Pearl—if Man—meant nothing in the scheme of the universe?

Did you know humans are the only creatures alive that know about death?

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down

All ethnography is part philosophy and a good deal of the rest is confession.

The Bible's a lot of regurgitated garbage. There's no way all the truth can be contained in one book.

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

There is no such thing as fate. We are born, we live, we die. We invent meaning to make life tolerable.

Philosophy is inexistent without reason. Weigh things as they are.

The philosophy of life started on the day you gained wisdom, not on the day you were born.

Not everyone believes in the beginning and existence of everything, except of himself/herself.

Believing in God because doing so satisfies one's needs is different from believing that there is a God solely because of evidence.

An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.

There is only one inborn error: and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy. Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

Socrates, after all, said that the unexamined life was not worth living. He might have added, however, that continual self-examination would leave us no time to live.

In Sartre's style of argument, German metaphysics met French sophistry in a kind of European Coal and Steel Community producing nothing but rhetorical gas.

Schopenhauer extended the same idea by favouring real observation over erudition, and stated confidently that the second sapped the first.

Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything. —EGON FRIEDELL,