Quotes About Philosophy

I always wanted to see if I could sell a movie to the public without doing any marketing because my philosophy was like, 'Hey man, I'm reaching my audience everyday. I'm twittering with them. I'm in direct contact with them on the podcast.'

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want to prod the audience to react to anything. To me, it was more like negative theater. We didn't really talk to the audience. I didn't see that being a part of this band.

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.

I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.

I want to read philosophers.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it.

The curious thing about the Ready-Made is that I've never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies me. There's still magic in the idea, so I'd rather keep it that way than try to be exoteric about it.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Spending on largely ineffective programs - although well intentioned - is a detriment to fostering real job growth.

Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people.

Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.

When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

The common belief is that you are either a dreamer or a realist. But idealism and pragmatism aren't as far apart as one might think.

Reality is like a doughnut: Everything that is good and funny and juicy is outside the center, which is just emptiness.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Can life be defined? Well, how would you go about it? Well, of course, you'd go to Encyclopedia Britannica and open at L. No, of course you don't do that; you put it somewhere in Google. And then you might get something.