Quotes About Philosophy

In my fiction, I pursue this idea of intimacy, but also - philosophically, politically - I just feel like that's the interesting question for me. How much can we share with other people? I'm not interested in human individuality; I don't even know what that means.

The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.

That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.

The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.

It's questionable whether I believe in God or Jesus but I do believe in a spiritual world and some kind of afterlife.

I've always questioned death and birth and life. Where do we go? Are we here now? Or is this just one of the lives that we live?

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Other kids would be playing with their Action Man, and I was questioning life and society.

I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of such a god. When I say that, I mean I'm - part of that is that the idea that God could be all-powerful and also benevolent is on its face contradictory.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.

I take life easy, not questioning every time the going gets tough.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

There are big questions science doesn't answer, such as why is there something rather than nothing? There can't be a scientific answer to that because it's the answer that precedes science.

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

I think very clearly the philosophy is to build a competitive and very quick car!

When it comes to the game they both focus on different things. Pep is maybe more about positions, dominating the ball while Jurgen is maybe more like winning the ball and trying to score goals as quick as possible with high intensity.