Quotes About Philosophy

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through freedom.

Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

The guiding principle that a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy remains as true today as it was in the nineteenth century.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?

Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons - which doesn't mean that you should avoid enlightenment.

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?