Quotes About Philosophy

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.

But he's dying". "Who isn't?

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche? Ah, such a book!

Religion is the opium of the people!

Ama o ölüyor." "Kim ölmüyor ki?

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

Life is a jest; and all things show it.I thought so once; but now I know it.

you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...

Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

Being dead is an improvement on a lot of things I can think of. Trying to sell mutual funds, for example.

Some days load themselves with questions whose answers have died, and maybe never mattered hugely

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

It isn't just that Bohr's atom with its electron "orbits" is a false picture; all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.

From this", says Schrödinger, "I learned many things, but not religion." His favourite question was, "Sir, do you really believe that?

Reality' is the idea that there is a real world that exists whether or not anyone is looking at it, or measuring it.

There is no absolute truth at the quantum level

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

Genesis is not metaphysically neutral—it mandates an affirmation of teleology (purpose), even as it leaves open the descriptive mechanism for material origins.

THERE IS GOOD REASON why Christian theologians consider theodicy the unsolvable theological issue. The reason is this: It is unsolvable.

Prior to taking up philosophy I had spent half a decade as an art student and I am quite sure that what persuaded me of the importance and veracity of these ancient ideas was my art school education. For art making is all about discerning and creating structures. When later, as a philosophy student, I read Wittgenstein's instruction to attend to the differences, I heard an echo of the art teacher's command to look at the gaps between objects and draw them also.

It is in suffering that we are withdrawn from the sway of time and mere things, and find ourselves in the presence of profounder truth.