Quotes About Philosophy

a page is not a four sided white void in which to practice zeroness.

I wanna live 'til I die. No more, no less.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose so.

John Dewey, the American philosopher, understood this: The very idea of democracy, the meaning of democracy, must be continually explored afresh; it has to be constantly discovered and rediscovered, remade and reorganized; while the political and economic and social institutions in which it is embodied have to be remade and reorganized to meet the changes that are going on in the development of new needs on the part of human beings and new resources for satisfying these needs.

what W.E.B. Du Bois described as "a hope not hopeless but unhopeful.

Baldwin's essays forced you to turn inward and confront whatever pain was there, and I did not want to do that. I damn sure didn't know what to do with my pain philosophically.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

Philosophy, is the talk on a cereal box. Religion, is a smile on a dog.

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.