Quotes About Philosophy

Dear Die-ary, I've been to heaven and hell...and I still don't know if there is a god or a devil. Still...it's something to write about.

Plato says the purpose of philosophy is to teach us how to die.

In Hindu philosophy the three tenses—past, present, future—were said to exist simultaneously in God. God was timeless, but time was personified as the god of death. Descartes, in his Third Meditation, said that God re-created the body at each successive moment. So that time was a form of sustenance.

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts.

It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject we see in philosophy or the work of Robert Wilson, for instance?

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

The continuous work of our life is to build death.

Philosophically, I feel that India will progress only if we work as teams.

Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a cheerful pessimist.

Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically.

All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

I learn that you can work really hard and still have a great time. That is part of Russell Crowe philosophy.

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

No effect of work can be eternal.

Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.