Quotes About Philosophy

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

If God is indeed omnipotent, is he then capable of creating something more intelligent than himself?

What had he said about machines?" Block was not entirely sure about that. Something about their eventually being able to think, something which the woman said was at odds with the Christian view of things, just like his sexual inclinations.

In her opinion he was an intellectual who had consciously decided to see the world in a positive light,

To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent.

Se în?elege de la sine c? atât religia, cât ?i pia?a financiar? se bazeaz? pe credin?a noastr?.

De ce sunt oare to?i nebunii ?i criminalii atât de religio?i în ziua de azi?

Do you know what my rabbi says? That the mark of a man is his contradictions. We can long to be away and at home, both at the same time.

Decidability is impossible. We are back in the land of paradox, with Epimenides declaring that he is a liar and Bertrand Russell upsetting Frege's applecart

If a man says 'I am lying' we say that it follows that he is not lying, from which it follows that he is lying and so on. Well, so what? You can go on like that until you were black in the face. Why not? It doesn't matter." For Turing, it did matter—not in some abstract or ideal sense but because he believed that hidden contradictions could result in things "going wrong.

ayuda a tomar las cosas con otra filosofía, a no preocuparse por nada, a decir "Que se haga Su voluntad". Y es tan fácil vivir sin preocupaciones, haciendo el propio trabajo lo mejor posible y dejando el resto a Dios.

The left's authoritarian impulse goes hand in hand with its dogmatic ideology. Leftists are so certain their philosophy is the sole correct moral viewpoint that no other views are accorded the slightest respect. With this outlook, it doesn't take much to rationalize the use of force to foist their beliefs on the entire country.

Attach yourself to truth, not to me. For I may die before you, but the truth will accompany you to your death.

He who studies himself at all is ignoble. Only by despising soul as well as body can a man enter true life.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become a person?

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die.

Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a barbarian.

Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.

In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.

It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.