Quotes About Philosophy

When I started, athletes fought for honor, respect, philosophy.

Thatgamecompany was founded with the philosophy that games are a form of entertainment, and entertainment is the food for emotion.

Martial arts was founded on the spirit that it's not only a sport, but a way of life.

Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel.

I'm not frightened of death.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.

When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question.

'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.

I believe I am more conservative than Bob Dole; I believe I am more committed to fundamentally changing American government than Bob Dole.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Qué somos nosotros, después de todo –nuestras acciones, nuestras percepciones– sino nervios que se disparan, ritmos?

My consultants recommended several nihilists and existentialists but I rejected them all. A black turtleneck sweater does not a misanthrope make. Nihilists and existentialists tend to be bohemians, who invariably run in packs; despite their alienated stance, they have always struck me as a sociable lot who surround themselves with people because they are forever saying Nothing matters, and they need someone to say it to.

God is a book I can no longer read.

Ideals make reason inaccessible.

Is the whole thing a folly and a mockery? Am I no better than a eunuch or is the proper man—the man with the right to existence—a raging stallion forever neighing after his neighbor's womankind? I don't know. And there is nothing to guide us. And if everything is so nebulous about a matter so elementary as the morals of sex, what is there to guide us in the more subtle morality of all other personal contacts, associations, and activities?

Chod?, napijemy si? ginu. Oto prawdziwa odpowied? na wszystkie parszywe problemy.

Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought like a fish in water: that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere else.

I perceive I will die confected in the very stench of farts

Egy kínai költÅ' sok száz évvel ezelÅ'tt azt mondta, hogy ha valamit leírunk, újra át is éljük.

From excerpts I'd read in Philosophy 101 at Randolph-Macon, Marx was dead on, I thought, about the idiocy of rural life. I knew better than to quote Marx. I tuned out everyone on the home front.