Quotes About Philosophy

Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?

If you believe it, is it real, or is it real because you believe it?

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.

My father used to say that stupid people think. (I really don't agree with him!)

My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, and philosophy, so I became interested in the protest aspect of Latin American art.

We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.

My only fear of death is reincarnation

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

If anyone can show me ... that there is any reason - other than fear - to believe in any version of an afterlife, I'll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.

Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.