Quotes About Philosophy

I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African - Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

I actually only speak English and Latin. Medieval philosophy was my major, so we pretty much had to study in Latin.

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

The interesting part of my spiritual life is studying as much as you can. Islam and Buddhism and Hinduism and Shamanism and Judaism, Christianity - you try to learn what the precepts are, what the religion is, and ultimately, it's based in the same thought, it's based in the same outcome, you know.

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.

I was at college studying psychology, philosophy, textiles and drama. But because I wasn't one of those all-singing, all-dancing stage-school kids, I just assumed I'd never become an actor.

My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.

I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians at night - it's hard to read Heidegger, but it's especially hard if you're half asleep.

I started studying Jeet Kune Do in my early 20s.

I started my first year at college on May 10 2015, and dropped my first video, 'Black Box' on the same day, it's pretty weird. I'm studying Philosophy and Ethics, Law and Music. Ethics helps a lot with music. Philosophy gives you a great perspective on things; it makes you think deeper about what you're saying.

When I was studying in JNU, I realised how students and professors address each other as comrades.

I find it beyond stunning that there is a school of thought or two out there that swears we are into solids and that solids are bad and liquids are good.

Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.