Quotes About Philosophy

My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.

Changing from Sevilla to Barca is huge in every sense, and it's not easy, but having a private life so full of love helps. I get strength from my two girls. And my philosophy is enjoy it.

I am a pro-choice Republican. But there are some areas - late-term abortions and parental notification - I'd be open minded to.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

I don't know that I believe that God is in control of everything that happens. As a Jew, I believe that we have free will and we are responsible for our actions. But I guess it's something I'm still probing.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels dance on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected.

If you're locked into a philosophy of nickels and dimes, then you have a pretty limited approach to life. I don't need a lot of money to live with dignity.

When you die, I think you re-live your life in a different dimension, in a different world but I don't believe in aliens.

I don't have a philosophy for choosing roles. Sometimes, it's just, 'This might be interesting; that might be fun to do.' There might be interesting actors or directors in the project, even if the part is not important. And then sometimes, you need the money.

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.