Quotes About Philosophy

Death is terrible to Cicero desirable to Cato and indifferent to Socrates.

Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination try to visualize a world without death.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

The good is not a category that interests me.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

Design does not really interest me

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea.

There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs.

The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated.

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

You don't sell the product, you sell the philosophy. When you sell a product, you have customers, when you sell a philosophy, you have believers.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that

The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.

Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake