Quotes About Philosophy

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves.

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that you 'are,' and in order to express it, you have built a little alphabet, and you make your words from it.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

You have to have a clear philosophy as a club, how you want to play, the work ethic, the atmosphere.

It's easy for the thought-leader and executive classes to embrace a 'do what you love and love what you do' philosophy when they are wealthy enough to work hard only voluntarily, and when their jobs grant them status.

Trying to work out where you find meaning and sense in a meaningless world is my obsession.

If you're trying to avoid one move that you don't think is going to work out, don't then settle for a different move that maybe doesn't check all the boxes. Be true to the philosophy and understand the bigger picture. There's always another day to fight.

I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.

There is no question that Israelis - indeed, all concerned Jews - have to continue to work out a Jewish public philosophy that truly justifies a Jewish state in the land of Israel.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

I'd rather there wasn't an afterlife, really. I'd much rather not be me for thousands of years.

The Way is the beginning of the ten thousand things and the guiding thread of truth and falsity.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

Nothing exists except through language.

A philosophy of freedom must set out from the experience of thinking, for it is through this experience of thinking that a human being discovers his own self, finds his bearings as an independent personality.