Quotes About Philosophy

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.

The teaching philosophy of most companies today is similar to that of the schools I went to – lots of people sitting in a classroom, with an expert up front telling you things. I've always thought that if that was the natural way for people to learn, we ought to see four-year-olds spontaneously forming themselves into rows.

Your beliefs shape your attitudes!

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens

Even misfortune has its advantages say the wise. Of course the wise say stupid things, because even wisdom has its foolishness, say I.

Out there's a moral law. Within I've only stars!

Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman.

This is some kind of heretical, possibly Manichean version of neo-Platonic Roscicrucianism, thinks I to myself; tread carefully, girlie!

To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion.

I fall to the toilette of my hinder parts, my favourite stance when contemplating the ways of the world.

he had examined the world by the light of the intellect alone and had seen a totally different construction from that which the senses see by the light of reason.

Life isn't about having things, Grandmother. It's about being a decent person.

He says there are three kinds of people in any society, because people are tripartite. What does that mean?" "Comprised of three parts. Plato believes humans are appetite, spirit, and reason. But I am not certain HaShem would agree. The Torah tells us that man is body and soul.

Scientific materialism is neither an implication nor a presupposition of doing science. Rather it is a metaphysical and sometimes religious stance that some people have toward science.

There could be nothing more wrong than the Maslowian model of hierarchy of needs. … Please do not ever think that only after meeting your physiological needs and other needs can you be thinking about your spiritual needs or your enlightenment.

Yet for all her solitariness, or her self-sufficiency, she lacked an overriding philosophy to help her deal with encroachments, incursions, and thus fell at the first fence.

As the rest of them aged and raged against the good night to come, he faced it with equanimity, even with amusement. Death, he said, was the last big adventure.

That was his father's way. Things he couldn't change he made the best of. He said there was no point in taking on the world. He'd never win.

There was no point, she'd learned, in raging against the inevitable, and incompetent bosses seemed to be as inevitable as death.

Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere.

Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?