Quotes About Philosophy

Benny Anger: What's up, doc? Doc Manhattan: Up is a relative concept; it has no intrinsic value.

I believe he's a man of great integrity, but he seems to see the world in very black and white. Manichean terms. I personally believe that to be an intellectual limitation.

Do not weep. Being is enough. There, that is all. I am done...

It doesn't matter how "successful" each of us is in life. We're all doomed to die. Why can't anyone else see that?

Professor Einstein says that time differs from place to place. Can you imagine? If time is not true, what purpose have watchmakers, hein?

Ideas of self, ideas of world and family and nation, articles of scientific or religious faith, your creeds and currencies: one by one, the beloved structures falling.

In my opinion, the existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon.

If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.

There is more to life than the material world. The truth most painful to the heart is that which makes the spirit stronger. And it is the strength of the spirit that will be needed when the physical crisis is over.

We aren't contractually tied down to rationality! There is no sanity clause!

Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.

Tell me: do you ever actually remember having a heart, or were you born dead?

If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.

It seems to me that no matter whether you marry, settle down or live with a bird or not, certain ones simply have your number on them, like bombs in the war; and even if you don't happen to like them all that much there's nothing you can do about it — unless you're prepared to spend a lifetime arguing fate out of existence, which you could probably do if you tried but I'm not the type. —Crust on Its Uppers, p. 87

The classics can console. But not enough.

transcendental phenomenology as a science of pure essential possibilities of knowing

Many atheists might proudly proclaim that our lives have no ultimate meaning, yet the business of finding significance in one's life is perhaps the most important part of being human. When we drift into a life without meaning, we soon become a pack of symptoms and pathologies; and without any feeling of significance, many choose to end their lives altogether.

We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return for self-awareness.

Schopenhauer wrote, 'Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Aristotle also felt strongly that virtue requires action; mere noble intentions are not enough.

The meaning of life,' wrote Kafka, reputedly, 'is that it stops.

Hamlet: 'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.' Later, in the nineteenth century

We are allowed to question people about their politics or ethics and expect them to defend their beliefs, or at least hold their own in any other important matter by recourse to evidence, yet somehow on the massive subject of God and how he might have us behave, all rational discussion must stop the moment we hear 'I believe'.