Quotes About Philosophy

I've always enjoyed poor health

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

I'm not that much into working out. My philosophy - no pain no pain.

Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.

We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.

When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.