Quotes About Philosophy

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

Well, it would have to be "The Man Who Was Thursday." It's a damn good read that I believe should be read by everyone in politics.

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice

Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.

The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx.

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.

A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.

The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

Unlike Churchill I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice - and they poisoned him.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?