Quotes About Philosophy

Me parece que lees demasiado —dijo lord Peter—, y la lectura de la filosofía, por ejemplo, tiene una influencia embrutecedora.

That's better,' said Wimsey. 'Napoleon or somebody said that you could always turn a tragedy into a comedy by sittin' down.

What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing about him, and a great many male undergraduates turn pale and faint at the thought of him-but I, eccentric individual that I am, do want to know about Aristotle, and I submit that there is nothing in my shape or bodily functions which need prevent my knowing about him.

The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

LINSCOTT: Well, life certainly treats you fine. CONNIE: No, Tom. Life and I go Dutch.

What is life, anyway? A death sentence. The longest distance between two points.

There is almost nothing more useless than a New Mexican in a metaphysical mood.

Saturday Night was chaotic by design. From Lorne on down, the tenets of the show's production philosophy were that inspiration, accident, and passion were of greater value than discipline, habit, and control.

God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.

The point is, you see, said Ford, that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

Exactly! said Deep Thought. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

What's up? [asked Ford.] I don't know, said Marvin, I've never been there.

How can I tell, said the man, that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

The argument goes something like this: I refuse to prove that I exist, says God, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about ?

Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Who is this god person anyway?

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.