Quotes About Philosophy

Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.

I like Jesus, I mean, I think he was a good guy.

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.

God is all over the place. And even if He isn't, if it makes me feel good, why not?

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

Vegetarianism is a good idea.

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.

The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge.

One of the reasons that I really don't mind that people are selling Linux commercially is exactly because it does make me feel good that people use the product.

I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them - that's just the way I am they make me feel good about who I am.

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.

I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind.

Good and bad, what's good and bad? I don't know.

I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

If it ever seems to us that the world is a place where bad things only happen to good people, it is because we still believe that bad things happening to bad people is a good thing.

There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.