Quotes About Philosophy

This is just an example of the age-old debate over two kinds of happiness that scholars refer to as hedonia and eudaimonia. Hedonia is about feeling good; eudaimonia is about living a purpose-filled life. In truth, we need both. Hedonia without eudaimonia devolves into empty pleasure; eudaimonia without hedonia can become dry.

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational activity. And to be conscious at all is not a quality that a computer as such will ever possess - no matter how complicated, no matter how well it plays chess or any of these things.

Quality is the Buddha.

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it? And, you know, everybody has their own idea about what it is, but there's no coherent final consensus on why there is space.

If we do get a quantum theory of spacetime, it should answer some of the deepest philosophical questions that we have, like what happened before the big bang?

My philosophy on quarterbacks is, first and foremost, you've got to keep them healthy and on the field.

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

There's all kinds of schisms in Satanism, but the thing I like about it is the quest for knowledge.

The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.

Whether man is a product of evolution or is 'created' becomes the question, 'Who is man? Is he part of the world or something different from it?'

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries.