Quotes About Philosophy

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.

The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings.

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

There will never be a grand unified theory, Gloria. We will never find it. Not in our lifetimes, and it'll be too late.

The body did not exist separate from the soul because the soul didn't exist.

What, if anything, might have made a difference, or if it was always going to happen like this. In this universe. On this day.

Here, I think, lies the misfortune of philosophy: always we encounter on our travels some exceptional freak to which the philosophical rules are found to be non-applicable. Which are right – the freaks or the philosophical principles?

Mirrors and copulation are abominable, for they multiply the number of mankind.

Social Marxism is just as godless as classical Marxism, if not more so.

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

Cartesian dualism served science well, at first: by ceding matters of the spirit to men of the cloth, it got the Church off the back of science, which for centuries afterward was perceived as less of a threat to religion's domain than it would otherwise have been (pace, Galileo). But Cartesian dualism was a disaster for moral philosophy, setting in motion a process that ultimately reduced human beings to automatons.

In a world described by quantum physics, an insistence on causal closure of the physical world amounts to a quasi-religious faith in the absolute powers of matter, a belief that is no more than a commitment to brute, and outmoded, materialism.