Quotes About Philosophy

I told my wife once, 'I feel like I'm getting paid to sit at the feet of Aristotle.' Some people are like, 'You're comparing David Milch to Aristotle,' and yeah, I am, but I'm not Plato.

I am a daylight atheist.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.

I accept the cards that were dealt to me.

In the long run we are all dead.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way I think is debatable. I just don't know which side to debate.

I've always had an aversion to debt.

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

Mothering is just so different now from the way it was before. Especially with my mom. She was like the anti-helicopter mom. She was like an inflatable-tube, blow-up-flamingo-in-the-pool mom. Her philosophy was, the situation will declare itself.

I needed something deeper than the Catholic faith, and Buddha helps me control myself.

I think defending is more of, like, a science, and it's fun to learn that. And then I see attacking as an art.

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it.

Today, I defined 'sentimental' to myself as a feeling about the idea of a feeling.

I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

Though many men would be content to follow Christ by taking up their cross, few would be willing to follow Him by denying their reason.

I always find the most depressing stuff most interesting.

My design is no design.

Character is destiny.