Quotes About Philosophy

That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

One hardly need believe that the events in your life are actually planned as bolts from the blue, sent special delivery from a deity who is testing and training you like a lab rat! And that is what we are saying when we fretfully ask, "What can God be trying to teach me through this tragedy?

The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this visible world, the addition of an infinite amount more of the same isn't about to somehow make it any more meaningful! Add a whole string of zeroes to a zero and watch what happens.

No, the reason he didn't fear death was because he had accepted his place—minuscule as an atom, insignificant as a mayfly—in a mystery and a miracle beyond full comprehension.

Maybe time was an illusion after all, as some of the latest scientific theories seemed to suggest.

But Einstein had always admired Freud as a philosopher more than as a scientist, and had found his essays more thought-provoking than they were definitive.

If the world is rationally constructed and has meaning," Kurt said, his head down as he carefully lifted a single strand of spaghetti from his plate, "then there must be such a thing as an afterlife. Otherwise, what is the meaning of this one?" "Oh, Kurt," Adele said, "why must everything have a meaning? Maybe we are just here to eat spaghetti and talk and laugh and," she paused, replenishing her glass and raising it to her host, "drink good wine.

For while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also the case that the unlived life isn't worth examining.

A rule says, "You must do it this way." A principle says, "This works … and has through all remembered time.

while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining.

It was a singular point of view that made all the difference over a lifetime.

Our overall philosophy is to plant seeds inside my asset column. That is my formula. We start small and plant seeds. Some grow; some don't.

understanding both our history and our future. After The Worldly Philosophers, I recommend reading The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, Paul Zane Pilzer's Unlimited Wealth, James Dale Davidson's The Sovereign Individual, Robert Preacher's The Crest of the Wave, and Harry Dent's The Great Depression Ahead. While

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. — Albert Einstein

Less is a bore.

Twain broke with the tradition of asking "Who Am I?" and its species-wide variant "Who Is Man?" on the grounds that a "who-question" is a leading question. It predisposes us to expect the answer to be a sentient being, not unlike ourselves, "whom" we're trying to characterize.

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The lively is always more contemplative than what is dead and sad.