Quotes About Philosophy

Sam: So then what is art? Hally: You want a definition? Sam: Ja. Hally: [He realizes he has got to be careful. He gives the matter a lot of thought before answering.] Philosophers have been trying to do that for centuries. What is Art? What is Life? But basically I suppose it's... the giving of meaning to matter. Sam: Nothing to do with beautiful? Hally: It goes beyond that. It's the giving of form to the formless.

Much later, reflecting on Iago's dictum, "Put money in thy purse" she noted rather wryly, "I live on the capital of my mind").

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.

I dream, therefore I exist.

You are impossible. You are only a realist, and therefore nothing happens to you.

Nothing at bottom is real except humanity.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

En las victorias, los sabios son amantes de la alegría; en las derrotas, son amigos de la interiorización.

La vida no es un ensayo, aunque tratemos muchas cosas; no es un cuento, auqnue inventemos muchas cosas; no es un poema, aunque soñemos muchas cosas. El ensayo del cuento del poema de la vida es un movimiento perpetuo; eso es, un movimiento perpetuo.

Words are dirty by nature.

The virtue of paganism was strength the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.

I'm drawing a diagram of what time looks like if you're looking straight into it - like looking down a tunnel and seeing a circle, if the tunnel were an angry ten-dimensional crab, which is what, in vastly oversimplified terms, we mean by the human word time .

Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?

Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.

The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.

Two truths cannot contradict one another.

I decided that one of the things Man doesn't need in this Universe is for God to have a sense of humor, especially a lousy one.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.