Quotes About Philosophy

Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

He was a man more concerned with the truth than his arrest quota, a philosophy that would often have him skate on thin ice with the higher ups.

It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

I hope my books make statements about our general condition.

The doctor looked my body over. I said: Is there any hope? He said: Yes. Reincarnation.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one.

Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.

Despair exists only when there is hope.

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.