Quotes About Philosophy

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'

I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.

It's foolish to call Chanakya an Indian Machiavelli. Rather, Machiavelli was possibly an Italian Chanakya.

I think Socrates was fascinated by Alcibiades. It's almost the opposite of hypocrisy. I think it's like when you can see the potential in someone.

I just always thought 'Groundhog Day' was potentially a great idea.

When you open up the court, now the point guards can see, they can score, and they're not afraid to take shots. Before it was like, 'No, don't take that shot. That's a bad shot. Pound it inside. Pound it inside.' And the philosophy has gone a little bit away from that, because it makes sense to do it the other way.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Ideas are more powerful than people.

Philosophy was once considered science.

Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan.

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs.

Education was not about consumption, but about contentment with less and less. This is what Buddha taught and this is what the Vedas say.

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.

Life can't die. It's a contradiction.

I am constantly evolving. If I believe in a particular philosophy today, I may have a contradictory opinion tomorrow.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

As a child, the conversations that I liked to have with my friends - or with anyone, for that matter - were always about religion.

I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey.

Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.

I am convinced that you should always play the way you want to play and success will then come on its own - as long as it's a good philosophy.