Quotes About Philosophy

Sin duda la ciencia avanza, es imparable, incluso avanza con buena velocidad, cada vez más rápido, pero, ¿qué hay de admirable en eso? Es como si se quisiera admirar a alguien porque a medida que pasan los años se hace más viejo y, a consecuencia de ello, la muerte se fuera aproximando cada vez más rápido.

Wszystko, co pan mówi, jest nudne i niezrozumiaÅ'e, a wskutek tego wcale nie jest bardziej prawdziwe.

Odamda günlerce yaln?z?m, ziyan? yok. Dünyada da y?llarca yaln?z deÄŸil miydim?

Ciertamente, la libertad que hoy es posible es un arbusto raquítico. Pero, al fin y al cabo, es libertad que, al fin y al cabo, es un bien.

27. Zosta? na nas na?o?ony jedynie obowi?zek negacji; to, co pozytywne, zosta?o nam ju? dane.

Parables really set out to say merely that the incomprehensible is incomprehensible, and we know that already. We lose in parable the moment we pin things down to an accessible meaning.

Existiam objeções que tinham sido esquecidas? Sem dúvida, estas existiam. A lógica, na verdade, é inabalável, mas ela não resiste a uma pessoa que quer viver.

Two alternatives: either to make oneself infinitesimally small, or to be so. The former is perfection and hence inaction; the latter a beginning and therefore action.

That is how things stand today, little likely to cause me any uneasiness.

The history of philosophy is actually full of people who argue for rather wild and incredible views, and their reputations are based on the skill of arguing for them.

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

People who are deep thinkers, who have sort of a weird way of looking at the universe, are wildly attractive to me.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.

William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.

I don't believe in ghosts or ESP or elves... or God. But I am spiritual in the sense that I get a lump in my throat when I listen to Vaughan Williams.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

An agnostic is someone who believes the nature of the Divine is unknowable... and in that sense, I'm willing to subscribe to being an agnostic.

This is my philosophy since 'Star Trek' and 'Battlestar': You have to be willing to have fandom hate what you're doing or love it and not care either way on a certain level, because you cannot become a slave to their emotion or their vote. It's not a democracy, as I'm always fond of saying.

We found in 'The Matrix' that people were willing to accept something more. It was a smarter film.