Quotes About Philosophy

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

Almost everybody accepts that some people can be killed. 'The concept of 'brain death' - the belief that people on respirators can legitimately be killed - shows that.

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.

I don't believe life begins at conception.

Left, right, populism... all are meaningless concepts.

I am not really interested in clothing as a conceptual art form.

Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.

If you come to the conclusion that there is no conclusion, well, that's a conclusion, too.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

What is God, and how do you believe in him - how do you not believe? It's a question the world continues to tussle with. People's beliefs get them in a lot of conflicts.

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

The only philosophy that I'm not confused about in life is love.

The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.

Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There's the ancient connection right there.

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things.

Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter.

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

Conservatism by its very nature is compassionate.

I am a conservative and proud of it.

I've always been a conservative first.

What makes us human is that we ask questions. All the animals have interests, instincts and conceptions. All the animals frame for themselves an idea of the world in which they live. But we alone question our surroundings.