Quotes About Philosophy

A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.

I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the 'ought' from the 'is.' My point of view is that this is impossible; this is a farce.

The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.

What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine.

I view everything in the context of Lord Krishna's will, and for me, it is fine if things go in my favour or against.

Honesty is overrated. As someone once said, 'Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the heart.' " "It was the Duc de Richelieu," said Lillian, who had read the same book of philosophy during their schoolroom lessons. "And the accurate quote is, 'Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State .' " "He was French, though," Daisy argued. "I'm sure he meant the heart as well.

I'm agnostic," I told him. "I'd be an atheist, except I believe in hedging my bets.

The problem isn't reading Ayn Rand, it's liking her.

My second concern about Occam's Razor is just a matter of fact. The world is more complicated than any of us would have been likely to conceive. Some particles and properties don't seem necessary to any physical processes that matter—at least according to what we've deduced so far. Yet they exist. Sometimes the simplest model just isn't the correct one.

There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang

My belief is that when you die, that's it. As a mature person, one should accept that. But despite the total absence of concrete evidence, billions on this planet are convinced there is more. Most curious.

Magritte presents ordinary objects in impossible contexts. He challenges us to our place in relation to the world: our own humanity.

Magritte presents ordinary objects in impossible contexts. He challenges us to consider our place in relation to the world: our own humanity.

I think, therefore I'm single.

Both Hegel and Darwin can be mis-used to support a belief in the "survival of the fittest".

Philosophy is for those, who feel that they can think beyond their thoughts

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.

I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.

This also shows wherein the identity of the same man consists, viz. in participation of the same continued life by particles of matter successively united to the same organized body.

The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.