Quotes About Philosophy

Philosophy is one of the ways to use complicated sentences to explain simple concepts.

The big truth, maybe the only truth, is that we don't know anything for sure.

The true thinker is on the side of justice, of reason, of life.

one must not borrow a long white beard and tie it on and threaten with the scythe of time the casually curious

Well I am glad I have something of the fool in my disposition--foolishness being the only quality that makes wisdom possible.

all the best, greatest, purest and worthiest things in life are beyond all market-value and that the gifts of the gods are not for sale.

Even if this entire book is bullshit, can you think of a more empowering and pragmatic philosophy to embrace?

Long term, your beliefs determine your destiny.

When you change a belief, you change everything.

the words of Pyotr Stephanovich come into my mind: You must love God because He is the only one you can love for Eternity. That sounds very profound to me, and tears come into my eyes whenever I say it. I never heard anyone else say it. But I don't believe in God and if I did I couldn't love Him/Her/It. I couldn't love anyone I thought had created this world.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.