Quotes About Philosophy

You know, around 14 or 15 I rebelled against Christianity pretty hardcore. I was reading a lot of other esoteric Eastern philosophy and getting into everything that wasn't dogmatic Christian. But I will say that it did kind of prime me for a more spiritual lifestyle. I didn't walk away with bitterness, even though there was some condemnation.

When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

It's a principle of my philosophy that you have to respect the individual human being.

This concept of turning dying into flying is a metaphor for my basic life principle.

The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.

To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

In reality, anyone can call themselves a conservative. There is no secret handshake or written test to prove your bona fides. But the true conservative reaches outcomes by respecting and heeding to well-developed, sound principles.

Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist.

I have an ethics background. It doesn't mean you're perfect. But I tried to set an entirely different bar for politics in D.C. that's based on ethics and first principles and political philosophy, and not this constant bickering of, 'Are you Right or Left?'

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society.

You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.

The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to social legislation.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

I had had a classical education prior to that.

Money is not a concern, or even my priority.

I don't think materialistic things are my priority.