Quotes About Philosophy

Go ahead; take Kant's PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSIC and get it to show what he is telling. We would all be a lot happier.

it is Simone I want to visit in her cramped grave. To thank her for a single line in The Second Sex that I read in my midtwenties. It rang in my head like a bell, tolling the direction to my future. I paraphrase: In order to create, one must be deeply rooted in society. After reading that line I vowed to elbow my way in, to be heard. I knew women had been pushed to the margins.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

He's more of a Death person than a Dinner Roll person...

Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

Objectivism comes on, sometimes, as if the most important issue you have to understand is the issue of egoism versus altruism. But thats nowhere near the beginning of the process.

There is only one reality--the reality knowable to reason. And if man does not choose to perceive it, there is nothing else for him to perceive.

When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises.

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard to survive.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

Setiap orang harus mati. Saya akan mati, dan kamu akan mati. Dan yang penting ialah bagaimana untuk hidup sampai mati.

A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it's fair, it isn't a trial.

So we have transitioned from bugger off to philosophy now?

Plato wrote in The Republic during the fourth century BC, "Where there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Death must exist for life to have meaning.

So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. —NDT

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.