Quotes About Philosophy

Life is a tragedy for those who feel...but a comedy for those who think

Don't take life so serious, son...it ain't no how permanent. --Porky Pine, June 19-24, 1950

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Words! book-words! what are you?

Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself,

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Nihilists! I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.

You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

Humanity's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.

Perhaps, after all, the greatest psychologist is not the metaphysician but the novelist.

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery.

He rejected traditional religious beliefs (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned argument, nor even with an expression of emotional antipathy, for he loved to use religious expressions and metaphors, but simply by saying that they are naive.

He claimed to be an atheist, but he always used religious symbolism...

A brain the size of a planet," said Aristide, "and you're as fucked by Sartre as the rest of us.

If you wish to find the unclouded truth, he told himself, do not concern yourself with right or wrong. Conflicts with right and wrong are a sickness of the mind. The

What happens if you need a diplomat who can also practice philosophy fight with a lightsaber and levitate small objects Who else are you going to call but us Mara

Thin streams of blood ran in artistic patterns. "Pulling toenails serves the Destinarian philosophy?" he asked. Ardala shrugged. "Demonstrates the fragility of flesh as opposed to hardware. I'm going to take a bath.

Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.

The Golden Rule is intolerable; if millions did to others whatever they wished others to do to them, few would be safe from molestation. The Golden Rule shows anything but moral genius, and the claim by which it is followed in the Sermon on the Mount -- 'this is the Law and the Prophets' -- makes little sense.

The self is essentially intangible and must be understood in terms of possibilities, dread, and decisions. When I behold my possibilities, I experience that dread which is "the dizziness of freedom," and my choice is made in fear and trembling.

No one system reveals the entire truth; at best, each organizes one point of view or perspective. We must consider many perspectives, and a philosopher should not imprison his thought in one system.

The value of a human being, Nietzsche said, does not lie in his usefulness: for it would continue to exist even if there were nobody to whom he could be useful.