Quotes About Philosophy

Theology is never any help it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Don't expect wisdom at the moment of death.

No sane person fears nothingness.

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

I began to perceive how relative and instrumental truth could be.

The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

There are no beautiful clocks. Everything to do with time is hideous.

In fact the Kabbalah rests upon the exoteric Judeo-Christian tradition. It consists of metaphysics and philosophy, from which can be drawn a mystical way, which is applied and regulated through personal asceticism.

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

In conclusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.

Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us, curiosity to inspire us, hours free for meditation, words to place our thoughts in order, the question like a restless ghost has prowled the cellars of our consciousness.

Reciprocity is certainly not a good basis for a morality of aspiration. Yet it is more than just the morality of egoism. It

To him who looks on the world reductively, the world looks reductively back.

Cognitively, grasp of just one concept is the sound of one hand clapping.

One of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy," observed economist John Kenneth Galbraith, "is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

The Soul's Upward Yearning by Fr. Robert Spitzer, the intergalactically smart Jesuit who once served as president of Gonzaga University and who now directs the Magis Center on matters of faith, reason, and science,

Summa theologiae

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.

Death comes for us all; even at our birth-- even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. It is the law of nature, and the will of God.