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Quotes About Philosophy

What do you want to do Marvin? croaked Alex, and then coughed the frog out. Excuse me? Apart from being a milk operative. I mean, what do you want to do with you life? Marvin eloquently groaned, like a disappointed academic, and slapped his own forehead. I tell you something, yeah? Das an idiot's question, yeah? Life is going to do things to me. And that's all there is. And it's all good. Yogurts?
~ Zadie Smith
Watching this manic desire to make or grow or do 'something', that now seems to be consuming everybody, I do feel comforted to discover I'm not the only person on this earth who has no idea what life is for, nor what is to be done with all this time aside from filling it.
~ Zadie Smith
software is not neutral. Different software embeds different philosophies, and these philosophies, as they become ubiquitous, become invisible.
~ Zadie Smith
In this lengthy riposte, the philosopher informs Paulinus that "learning how to live takes a whole life," and the sense most of us have that our lives are cruelly brief is a specious one: "It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
~ Zadie Smith
Maybe I have thought intellect more important than faith. And now it seems this final temptation has been put in front of me.
~ Zadie Smith
It was the spirit of the times: we applied high theory to shampoo ads, philosophy to NWA videos.
~ Zadie Smith
Watching this manic desire to make or grow or do "something," that now seems to be consuming everybody, I do feel comforted to discover I'm not the only person on this earth who has no idea what life is for, nor what is to be done with all this time aside from filling it.
~ Zadie Smith
Was it wrong to hope to be happy?
~ Zadie Smith
In the university prospectus, an italic script over a picture of the Firth of Forth: Philosophy is learning how to die. Philosophy is listening to warbling posh boys, it is being more bored than you have ever been in your life, more bored than you thought it possible to be.
~ Zadie Smith
disquisitions
~ Zoe Archer
Maybe nothin' ain't real sho' nuff. Maybe 'taint no world. No elements, no nothin'. Maybe wese jus' somewhere in God's mind. But when he wiggled his tired toes the world thudded and throbbed before him.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
suggestions
~ Zoro
I have this deep and abiding faith in God. But this does not mean that you have to have a religion or follow somebody.
~ Rodrigo Duterte
War is an abstraction.
~ Bruce Jackson
What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.
~ Maurizio Cattelan
I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.
~ Peter Mullan
All theatre is absurd.
~ Eugene Ionesco
I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.
~ Mike Love
I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.
~ Jim Dine
I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.
~ Eileen Myles
I do not agree that the coach has to adapt to the players. There was a time when I thought it, but that was because I did not understand football.
~ Quique Setien
Guardiola has come to City with a very unique style. And he wants to continue that philosophy. We had to work to adapt to his style.
~ Vincent Kompany
I have my philosophy in my mind: you need to adapt for each moment and each team.
~ Marco Silva
I admire Grover Norquist. I think he's done a lot of good.
~ Tom Cole