Quotes About Philosophy

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

I don't respect religon. I don't respect superstitious thinking and that is what religous is.

Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."

Respect Death and You Live In Life

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

Politics is a romantic search for the good and the true and the beautiful.

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.

The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state.

The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another

How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd.

Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.