Quotes About Philosophy

I think America is a new country. It is a young culture. The spirit of the opening of the West is still with the Americans. It's a very practical and individual-based kind of philosophy that had worked in America for a long time, had been very successful. And the spirit is very much there.

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy or practice... but because of his omnipresent images.

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.

There are libertarians who are survivalists, who live in the middle of nowhere and who are ready for the world to end. And then there are pragmatists, and I would consider myself to be a pretty pragmatic person.

Pragmatism and romance are sort of opposites.

Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.

For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

I'm not like a preacher or philosopher, but at the end of the day, life is about happiness.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow.

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

I do not prefer a formation because it is only numbers.