Quotes About Philosophy

I am a big believer in Gandhi-ji. I really like him.

I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

There's a reason evolution is a hot-button issue. It's not just a matter of science, either. It's a matter of the big questions in life - why are we here, what is truth, where is our moral basis?

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

I do find that I tend to write about big questions. Why are we here? What are we doing? How do we relate to each other?

I never believed in birthday parties.

Birthdays, for me, are not really important. It is just like any other day.

I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.

I don't think 'bleak' is a bad thing.

I wouldn't characterise myself as a bleeding heart liberal, whatever that is.

The world is philosophically booby-trapped; touch an interesting subject, and it just might blow up in your face. Some say it's better not to touch.

I share a special bond with Ajax. I think we are a special club. And we're known for our philosophy around the world.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't.

Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here.

We will always put our values before our bottom line.

I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit.

But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

I am a Buddhist.

I'm a Buddhist.

I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist, but of all the things I investigated, that seems to make the most sense to me.

Sometimes I feel like Leonard Cohen when he went off to become a Buddhist.