Quotes About Philosophy

We look through the sights, squeeze the trigger and the toy soldiers go flying, dying hard but smiling in the process. The toy maker should be laughing the whole way to the bank but Nietzsche said he was dead too.

In the space of two mere weeks, I have come to know the meaning of life. I won't share it with you, because we all have to find our own meaning. Camus was right, though. Sometimes, I feel just like Meursault.

Philosophy should address every aspect of our lives — the sacred, the profane, and even the mundane.

I don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it could certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.

AN OLD Camorri proverb has it that the only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy;

I don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it would certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.

According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.

Well, who's real? The living or the dead?

Because consciousness is ultimately a matter of faith," James said

I never think of the life I'll miss after I'm dead, or all that I missed before I was born. It's the time I'm as good as dead during this, my one and only life, that makes me tear at my hair. It seems to me that if I carefully gathered all of the time I was entirely alive I would have amassed perhaps two years of life so far...

The truth is that anxiety is at once a function of biology and philosophy, body and mind, instinct and reason, personality and culture.

No wonder I'm anxious: I'm like Woody Allen trapped in John Calvin.

Fear arises from a weakness of mind and therefore does not appertain to the use of reason. —BARUCH SPINOZA (CIRCA 1670)

This is life. You know the philosphers? The Present never stops. There's only the Present. You cheat life if you live in the Past.

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ALL GREAT DEEDS AND ALL GREAT THOUGHTS HAVE A RIDICULOUS BEGINNING. —ALBERT CAMUS, THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS

The world is not magic — and that's the most magical thing about it.

The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value.

As we understand the world better, the idea that it has a transcendent purpose seems increasingly untenable.

If everything in the universe evolves toward increasing disorder, it must have started out in an exquisitely ordered arrangement. This whole chain of logic, purporting to explain why you can't turn an omelet into an egg, apparently rests on a deep assumption about the very beginning of the universe. It was in a state of very low entropy, very high order. Why did our part of the universe pass though a period of such low entropy?

The ancient Greeks, according to Pirsig, "saw the future as something that came upon them from behind their backs, with the past receding away before their eyes.

If our lives are brief and undirected, at least we can take pride in our mutual courage as we struggle to understand things much greater than ourselves.

Nothingness, after all, is simpler than any one particular existing thing ever could be; there is only one nothing, and many kinds of something.

If you believe that the atoms that are inside your brain and your body act differently because they are in a living person than if they were in a rock or a crystal, then what you're saying is that the laws of physics are wrong.